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LUGANSK (also LUGAIr and LUGANSICIY ZAVOD)

LUGANSK (also LUGAIr and LUGANSICIY ZAVOD) , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

Russia, in the See also:

government of Ekaterinoslay. Pop. (1900) 34,175. It has a technical railway school and a meteorological See also:

OBSERVATORY

observatory, stands on the small See also:

RIVER

river Lugan, to m. from its confluence with the See also:

NORTHERN

northern Donets, in the Lugan See also:

MINING

mining See also:

DISTRICT

district, 213 M. E. of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

EKATERINOSLAV

Ekaterinoslav, and has prospered greatly since 1890. This district, which comprises the See also:

COAL

coal-mines of Lisichansk and the See also:

ANTHRACITE (Gr. avOpaE, coal)

anthracite mines of Gorodishche, occupies about 110,000 acres on the See also:

banks of the Donets river. Although it is mentioned in the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and coal was discovered there at the See also:

time of See also:

Peter the See also:

GREAT

Great, it was not until r795 that an Englishman, Gascoyne or Gaskoin, established its first See also:

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

iron-See also:

WORKS

works for supplying the See also:

Black See also:

Sea See also:

FLEET

fleet and the southern fortresses with guns and shot. This proved ,a failure, owing to the great distance from the sea; but during the See also:

CRIMEAN

Crimean See also:

War the iron-works of Lugan again produced shot, See also:

shell and See also:

GUN

gun-carriages. Since 1864 agricultural implements, See also:

steam-engines, and machinery for beetroot See also:

SUGAR

sugar-works, distilleries, &c., have been the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief manufactures. There is an active See also:

trade in 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, 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, wools, skins, See also:

LINSEED

linseed, See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, See also:

corn and manufactured wares.

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