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ID: 1058042
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1058042
Record Type:
administrative
Orsk (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 058 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 58.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at confluence of Ural & Or rivers; large oil refinery processes petroleum from Emba & Mangyshlak fields on Caspian Sea; other industries include metallurgical & mining machinery, electrical equipment & processed meat.
Names:
Orsk
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Орск
(
C
,
U
,
Russian-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Russia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Orenburg Oblast
(oblast) (
P
)
................
Orsk
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1735 as fortress of Orenburg, which was moved downriver to its present site in 1743
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
petroleum refining center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
metallurgical center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Орск..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2975370
Orsk..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 1014
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2975370
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
146
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 1014
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2975370
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
146
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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