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KUSTANAISK

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KUSTANAISK , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

Russia, in the See also:

province of See also:

TURGAI

Turgai, on the Tobol See also:

RIVER

river, 410 M. E.N.E. of See also:

ORENBURG

Orenburg, in a very fertile See also:

PART

part of the See also:

STEPPES

steppes. Pop. (1897), 14,065. The first buildings were erected in 1871, and it has since grown with See also:

AMERICAN

American-like rapidity. The immigrants from Russia built a large See also:

VILLAGE

village, which became the centre of the See also:

DISTRICT

district See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration in 1884, and a town in 1893, under the name of Nicolaevsk, changed later into Kustanaisk. It is an educational centre, and a See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral has been built. There are tanneries, See also:

TALLOW (M.E. talugh, talg, cf. Du. talk, L. Ger. talg ; the connexion with O.E. taelg, dye, or Goth, tulgus, firm, is doubtful)

tallow See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

POTTERIES, THE

potteries, and a See also:

FAIR

fair for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, while its See also:

trade makes it a See also:

RIVAL

rival to Orenburg and See also:

TROITSK

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