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ID: 7014810
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (inhabited place)  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 03 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.0500  decimal degrees
Long: 158 43 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 158.7167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on landlocked Avachinskaya Gulf; successfully fended off Anglo-French attack during Crimean War 1854; economy based on fishing & ship repair.

Names:
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (preferred,C,V)
Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy (C,V)
Petropavlovsk-Kamčatskij (C,V)
Petropavlovsk (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Rossiya (republic)  ............  Rossiya (republic) (P)
Hierarchy of Kamchatka (oblast)  ................  Kamchatka (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (inhabited place)  ....................  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by explorer Vitus Bering in 1740
city (C)
regional capital (C)
fish-processing center (C)
inland port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Petropavlovsk..........  [VP]
..........................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 732
Petropavlovsk-Kamčatskij..........  [VP]
.........................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 346
Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy..........  [VP]
............................................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy..........  [VP Preferred]
............................................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 152
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 732
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 346
..................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 152
 
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