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ID: 7010278
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010278
Record Type:
administrative
Saransk (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 12 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.2000
decimal degrees
Long: 045 10 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 45.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on upper portion of Insar River; founded as border stronghold, it became a hub on railways to Ryazan, Kazan & Penza; industry began after WW II & includes chemicals machines & foodstuffs; site of an institute of Mordivinian culture.
Names:
Saransk
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Саранск
(
C
,
U
,
Russian-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Rossija
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mordoviya
(republic) (
P
)
................
Saransk
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
city founded in 1641
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Саранск..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2996523
Saransk..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2996523
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
173
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2996523
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
173
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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