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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPPES , See also:

GENERAL-GOVERNORSHIP OF, a portion of See also:Russian Central See also:Asia which includes both what was formerly known as the See also:Kirghiz See also:Steppe, and the region around See also:Omsk, which was formerly See also:part of Western See also:Siberia. It consists of four provinces: See also:Akmolinsk, See also:Semipalatinsk, See also:Turgai and See also:Uralsk, having a See also:total See also:area of 711,000 sq. m. and a total See also:population of 2,472,931 in 1897. Details are given under the names of the provinces respectively. Omsk is the See also:capital.

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