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ID: 7010240
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010240
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Orenburg (inhabited place)  Orenburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 50 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.8333  decimal degrees
Long: 055 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 55.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Located at junction of Ural & Samkara rivers; was military center of Ural Cossasks; became trade center to Central Asia with construction of railway 1871-1873; suffered famine 1920-1921; modern industries include engineering, machinery & foodstuffs.

Names:
Orenburg (preferred,C,V)
Чкалов (C,U,Russian-P)
Chkalov (H,V,O)  ............ name used 1938-1957
Čkalov (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Rossija (nation)  ........  Rossija (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Orenburgskaya Oblast' (oblast)  ............  Orenburgskaya Oblast' (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Orenburg (inhabited place)  ................  Orenburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a fortress at site of present-day Orsk city in 1735 & moved downriver in 1743
city (C)
regional capital (C)
industrial center (C)
trade center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Чкалов..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2899207
Chkalov..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2899207
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 352
Čkalov..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-35
Orenburg..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 692
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 992
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 146
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 692
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 992
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2899207
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-35
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 146
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 352
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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