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ID: 1061349
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1061349
Record Type:
administrative
Vorkuta (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 67 27 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 67.4500
decimal degrees
Long: 064 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 64.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Vorkuta River; city & industry grew with construction of Koltas railway during WW II; became site of several of Stalin's labor camps for political prisoners.
Names:
Vorkuta
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Rossija
(nation) (
P
)
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Komi
(republic) (
P
)
................
Vorkuta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Vorkuta..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3035041
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
211
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3035041
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
211
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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