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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 557 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UFA , a See also:

town and See also:river-See also:port of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, situated 326 M. by See also:rail N.E. of See also:Samara, on the See also:main See also:line from See also:Moscow to See also:Siberia, at the confluence of the Ufa with the Byelaya. Pop., 49,295. The better See also:part of the town contains two cathedrals and a few churches; the See also:remainder is a scattered See also:aggregation of small wooden houses. There are a museum, a public library and a theological See also:seminary; and the See also:industries include See also:iron and See also:copper See also:works, machinery works and saw-See also:mills. Ufa was founded in 1574. The wooden kreml, or fort, protected by wooden towers and an See also:outer earthen See also:wall, had to sustain the attacks of the revolted See also:Bashkirs and See also:Russian See also:serfs in 1662 and at later See also:dates; and in 1773 Chika, one of the chiefs of the See also:Pugachev revolt, besieged it for four months.

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