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VYERNYI (formerly ALMATY)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 222 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VYERNYI (formerly ALMATY) , a See also:town and fort of See also:Asiatic See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:province of See also:Semiryechensk, 50 M. N. of See also:Lake Issyk-kul, at the See also:northern See also:foot of the Trans-See also:Ili See also:Ala-tau Mountains, at an See also:altitude of 2440 ft. Pop. 24,798. Founded in '854, it is well-built, provided with boulevards and surrounded by luxuriant gardens. It has a See also:cathedral, being an archiepiscopal see of the Orthodox See also:Greek See also:Church, a school of gardening and sericulture, a public library, and a few distilleries, tanneries and oil See also:works. Situated at the intersection of two roads—from See also:Kulja to See also:Tashkent, and from See also:Semipalatinsk to See also:Kashgar—Vyernyi carries on an active See also:trade in See also:wheat, See also:rice, See also:corn, See also:tea, oil and See also:tobacco. It was the centre of a remarkable See also:earthquake on the 9th of See also:June 1887.

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