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Verkhoyansk

(Encyclopedia)Verkhoyansk vyĕrkhəyänskˈ [key], town, Sakha Republic, NE Siberian Russia, on the Yana River, near the Arctic Circle. A river port, a fur-collecting depot, and the center of a reindeer-raising are...

Timan

(Encyclopedia)Timan tyēmänˈ [key], mountain ridge, c.350 mi (560 km) long, Komi Republic, NE European Russia. The low Timan ridge divides the extensive Dvina-Pechora lowland into the E Pechora River basin and th...

Ob

(Encyclopedia)Ob ôp [key], river, c.2,300 mi (3,700 km) long, W Siberian Russia. With the Irtysh River, its chief tributary, it is c.3,460 mi (5,600 km) long and is the world's fourth longest river. Formed by the ...

Avellaneda, Alonso Fernández de

(Encyclopedia)Avellaneda, Alonso Fernández de älônˈsō fārnänˈdāth dā ävĕlyänāˈᵺä [key], pen name used by the unknown Spanish writer who published a spurious second part of Don Quixote in 1614, bef...

Ingermanland

(Encyclopedia)Ingermanland ĭngˈgrēə [key], Finnish Ingerinta, historic region, NW European Russia, along the Neva River and on the east bank of the Gulf of Finland. Its name derives from the ancient Finnic inha...

Angarsk

(Encyclopedia)Angarsk əngərskˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 266,000), S Siberian Russia, on the Angara river and the Trans-Siberian RR. A major petrochemical center, its manufactures include fertilizers, synthetic fib...

Olenek

(Encyclopedia)Olenek əlyĭnyôkˈ [key], river, c.1,350 mi (2,200 km) long, rising in the central Siberian plateau, Krasnoyarsk Territory, E Siberian Russia. It winds E then N through NW Sakha Republic to the Lapt...

Onega

(Encyclopedia)Onega ōnēˈgə, ōnāˈ–, Rus. ŭnyāˈgŭ [key], river, c.260 mi (420 km) long, rising in Lake Lacha, NW European Russia, and flowing N into the Onega Gulf of the White Sea, SW of Arkhangelsk. It...

Kaluga

(Encyclopedia)Kaluga kəlo͞oˈgə [key], city (1989 pop. 311,000), capital of Kaluga region, central European Russia, on the Oka River. It is a river port, railway junction, and an industrial center producing rail...

Vychegda

(Encyclopedia)Vychegda vĭˈchĕgdä [key], river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, rising in several headstreams in the Urals, NE European Russia, and flowing generally W into the Northern Dvina River at Kotlas. It is na...