ASTRAKHAN, City, Russia

ăsˈtrəkăn, Rus. äˈstrəkhənyə, city (1990 pop. 521,000), capital of Astrakhan region, SE European Russia. A Caspian Sea port on the Volga River's southern delta, it is a center for river transport thanks to a canal built for barge traffic. Astrakhan is also an important rail junction and a major transshipment center for oil, fish, grain, and wood. The capital of the khanate of Astrakhan (see Tatars) from the 1460s, it was conquered by Ivan the Terrible in 1556. Astrakhan had a flourishing trade with Persia, Khiva, and Bukhara until 1917. It has a kremlin (1587–89) and a cathedral (1700–1710).

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The White Armies of Russia: A Chronicle of Counter-Revolution and Allied Intervention
Book by George Stewart; Macmillan, 1933
Subjects: Dal?Nevostochnaeiia Respublika, Siberia (Russia)--History, Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921
...make its way to South Russia. Inasmuch as the Kuban...and savage steppe to Astrakhan and the Volga. Most...town of Naltchik a young Russian officer in the midst...soldiers occupied the city on February 25th, arrested...desired to proceed to Astrakhan, where he could retreat...
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Enlightened Despotism in Russia: The Reign of Elisabeth, 1741-1762
Book by James F. Brennan; Peter Lang, 1987
Subjects: Elizabeth--Empress Of Russia--1709-1762, Enlightenment, Russia--History--Elizabeth, 1741-1762
...Ingermanland , Riga, Astrakhan, Voronezh, Smolensk...recently acquired by the Russian state. Siberia was a...named after the largest city which acted as the capital...disliked merchants whether Russian or foreign. 53...out of the towns and city markets while allowing...
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An Ethnic History of Russia: Pre-Revolutionary Times to the Present
Book by Tatiana Mastyugina, Lev Perepelkin, Vitaly Naumkin, Irina Zviagelskaia; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia, Ethnology--Russia (Federation), Ethnology--Soviet Union, Russia (Federation)--Ethnic Relations, Russia--Ethnic Relations, Soviet Union--Ethnic Relations
...the Irtysh and Tobol basins ; Astrakhan Khanate; Nogai and White Hordes...undermined the strength of the Russian centralized state, while political...expansion. From 1554 to 1556, the Astrakhan Khanate joined Russia and that completed the inclusion...
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The Military and Society in Russia: 1450-1917
Book by Eric Lohr, Marshall Poe; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Russia--History, Military, War And Civilization--Russia
...of Lithuania, was a wealthy merchant city-state, which claimed vast areas of hinterland...soon to be replaced by the Khanate of Astrakhan), the Kazan Khanate, the Khanate of Tiumen...geopolitical interpretation of Imperial Russian foreign policy. John P. LeDonne, The...
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Peter the Great: Emperor of All Russia
Book by Ian Grey; J. B. Lippincott, 1960
Subjects: Peter--I--Emperor Of Russia--1672-1725
...Muscovy into the Russian Empire. Moscow was...was a considerable city. Adam Olearius...In appearance the city was neither Asiatic...but distinctively Russian. Byzantine and...had blended into a Russian style. The churches...typified it. The city contained over fifteen...
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Islam in the North Caucasus
Journal article by Yavus Akhmadov, Stephen R. Bowers, Marion T. Doss Jr.; The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 26, 2001
Subjects: Caucasus, Chechnya Russia, Civil war, Islam, Minority & ethnic violence, Muslims
...faction is based in communities in the Astrakhan region, a stronghold of Vakhabite support...about the secession of Daghestan from the Russian Federation. While this association failed...required for rebuilding the devastated city. The Chechens and the Ingush are Sunni...
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Enterprise Restructuring in Russia's Transition Economy: Formal and Informal Mechanisms
Journal article by Susan J. Linz, Gary Krueger; Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Business enterprises--Russia, Communist revisionism--Russia, Economic policy--Russia, Mixed economy--Economic aspects, Russia
...1996), we found a significant capitol city effect in explaining variation among different performance measures of Russian firms; firms in Moscow tended to do...additional 19 regions: Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Bryansk, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kostroma...
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Pipelines and Pipe Dreams: Energy Development and Caspian Society
Journal article by Martha Brill Olcott; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 53, 1999
Subjects: Caspian International Petroleum Co.--Planning, Crime--Russia, Petroleum industry--Planning, Pipe lines--Usage, Russia--Economic aspects
...linchpin to plans bypassing Russia and shipping oil and gas from...went off in Uzbekistans capital city of Tashkent on 16 February 1999...the countrys second-largest city of Kutaisi in October 1998...includes both the United States and Russia. (3) In 1989 there were violent...
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Woods and Warfare in World History
Journal article by J. R. McNeill; Environmental History, Vol. 9, 2004
Subjects: Forests, Military history, War
...used as much fuel as a city of 100,000 to 200,000...what is now southern Russia and Ukraine. As with...wooden fortifications at Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea...prosperity, and because the city itself needed oak for...the reason Sweden and Russia developed an internationally...
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Trade and State in the Arabian Seas: A Survey from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Journal article by R. J. Barendse; Journal of World History, Vol. 2, 2000
Subjects: World History
...Delhi, Calcutta, or Astrakhan to Armenia, or and apparently...Venice, Turkey, and Russia. 58 It is meanwhile...Society in an Ottoman City: Bursa, 1600-1700...Ragusa): A Classic City-State (London, 1973...Ottoman Empire, and Russia were so great, this...
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Russia's Holy Warriors: Fervently Orthodox, Anti-Islamic, and Proudly Militaristic, the Cossacks Are on the Rise in Vladimir Putin's New Russia
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 295, January 2005
Subjects: Cossacks--Religious aspects, Cossacks--Social aspects, Russia--Religious aspects, Russia--Social aspects
...and security was heavy throughout the city. Novocherkassk is 375 miles to the northwest...in the southern provinces of European Russia--where historically Christian Europe has...from raiders based in the Crimean and Astrakhan Tatar khanates--Muslim states that eventually...
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A Bleak Future in Russia
Magazine article by Jamie Dettmer; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, December 6, 1999
Subjects: Post-communism--Social aspects, Russia--Social aspects
...million-strong city of Saratov, Russia, a couple of...Novgorod, Kazan and Astrakhan, where missiles...as in most of Russia. At the Camelot...mostly, and city politicians...the weight of Russian history and...buildings in the city center, and...
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What If Hitler Had Defeated Russia?
Magazine article by Dmitry Oleinikov, Sergei Kudryashov; History Today, Vol. 45, May 1995
Subjects: Germany--History, Soviet Union--History, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns
...decides to abandon the city. The train carrying...broken, it seems, and Russia is almost crushed...through Kazan to Astrakhan. Retaining the territory...Crimean War (and a Russian general of German...south-west of the city of Nikolaev, embracing...Caucasus included the Astrakhan Region and became...
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Getting Moscow on the Move
Magazine article by Peter Frank; The World Today, Vol. 53, February 1997
Subjects: Health, Leadership, Presidents, Russia, Succession planning
...into a financial network of the 12 out of Russias 89 regions that are in credit with the central...so-called `community of donor regions. Moscow City money is being invested in Samara, Saratov, Astrakhan, Yekaterinburg and elsewhere. In Saratov...
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Cavair Thugs: Poverty, Corruption, and Crime Are Threatening to Destroy a Russian Institution
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, June 2001
Subjects: Fishing laws--Russia
...typically twelve years. But in 1991 the Russian government, in the spirit of leniency...market value of roe is $122 a pound in Astrakhan, so the trader makes a profit of more...a pound, or ride two days to Brest, a city in Belarus near the Polish border, where...
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Scholar Claims to Find Medieval Jewish Capital
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 21, 2008
Subjects: Archaeology, News agencies, The Associated Press
...MOSCOW A Russian archaeologist...professor at Astrakhan State University...location of the city on the Silk...the long-lost city, The Khazars...now southern Russia and Ukraine...Sea port of Astrakhan, Vasilyev said...caused by the Russian conquest. He...inhabited the city until it was...
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Sleeping Giant Kazakhstan Starts to Awaken with Oil Pact: 9 International Firms, 2 Nations Help Tap Huge Reserves
Newspaper article by Martin Sieff; The Washington Times, December 21, 1996
Subjects: Kazakhstan
...The new pipelines route will go from the Tengiz oil fields in Kazakhstan north of the Caspian Sea through the Russian city of Astrakhan and on to a new port near Novorossiisk on the Black Sea. The first phase of the pipeline construction would...
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U.N. Halts Exports of Caspian Caviar; Seeks End to Rampant Poaching
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2004
...economic upheaval and ubiquitous corruption. In Astrakhan, the city at the head of the delta of Russias mighty Volga River, local officials say privately...against them," Vladimir Yakovlev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, complained at a...
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Around the World in 18 Days; It Famously Took Phileas Fogg 80 Days. on the Centenary of His Creator Jules Verne's Death, We Charged an Escape Writer to Do It in 18. Nine Locations, 59 Hours in the Air and 27,000 Miles Later, This Is Her Fascinating Report
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 26, 2005
...hit by the bustle and intensity of the city. It can drive you mad if you dont like...borrowed a white fur coat and matching astrakhan hat from the Three Lions fur shop and...for countries such as India, Egypt and Russia. For information about vaccinations required...


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Astrakhan , City, Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ASTRAKHAN , city, Russia as tr kan, Rus. a str kh ny , city (1990 pop. 521,000), capital of Astrakhan region, SE European Russia. A Caspian Sea port...for barge traffic. Astrakhan is also an important...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reigned 1533 84) was crowned czar of all Russia. He conquered the Tatar khanates of Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556), establishing Russian rule over the huge area of the middle and lower Volga; thus he laid the basis for the colonization and...
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Kremlin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...center of several Russian cities; the most...kremlin constituted a city in itself, containing...those of Moscow, Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod...The kremlin in the city of Moscow is known...and now housing the Russian parliament. The...the government of Russia...


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