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PETROPAVLOVSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 335 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PETROPAVLOVSK is also the name of a See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian seaport in See also:

KAMCHATKA

Kamchatka, on the eastern See also:

SHORE

shore cif the See also:

BAY

Bay of Avacha, in 53° N. and 1580 44' E. Its See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, one of the best on the Pacific, is little used, and the See also:

TOWN

town consists merely of a few huts with some 400 inhabitants. Its See also:

NAVAL

naval institutions were transferred to See also:

NIKOLAYEVSK

Nikolayevsk after the attack of the Anglo See also:

French See also:

FLEET

fleet in 1854.

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