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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 924 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KRASNOYARSK , a See also:

TOWN

town of Eastern See also:

SIBERIA

Siberia, See also:

capital of the See also:

GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

YENISEISK

Yeniseisk, on the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

YENISEI

Yenisei See also:

RIVER

River, at its confluence with the Kacha, and on the See also:

HIGHWAY

highway from See also:

Moscow to See also:

IRKUTSK

Irkutsk, 67o m. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.W. from the latter. Pop. (Igoo), 33,337• It has a municipal museum and a railway technical school. It was founded by See also:

COSSACKS (Russ. Kazak; plural, Kazaki, from the Turki quzzaq, " adventurer, free-hooter ")

Cossacks in 1628, and during the See also:

early years of its existence it was more than once besieged by the See also:

TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

Tatars and the See also:

KIRGHIZ

Kirghiz. Its• commercial importance depends entirely upon the See also:

gold-washings of the Yeniseisk See also:

DISTRICT

district. See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

Brick-making, See also:

SOAP

soap-boiling, tanning and See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding are carried on. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is very See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold, but dry. The Yenisei River is frozen here for 16o days in the See also:

YEAR

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