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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books on: Astrakhan City Russia  - 180 results

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Small-Town Russia: Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities
Book by Anne White; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Achit (Russia), Bednodemianovsk (Russia), Cities And Towns--Russia (Federation), Intellectuals--Russia (Federation), Post-Communism--Russia (Federation), Social Change--Russia (Federation), Zubtsov (Russia)
...actually 76?) regions, excluding worst case Dagestan and Ingushetia). 79 As in Map 1.1, the North Caucasus (including Astrakhan) has been excluded; so have Tyumen and the far northern regions, except Vologda. Only in 1994 did as many as half of the...
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Russia under Two Tsars, 1682-1689: The Regency of Sophia Alekseevna
Book by C. Bickford O'Brien; University of California Press, 1952
Subjects: Russia--History--Sof?Eiia Alekseevna, 1682-1689
...undoubtedly the most impressive city from the standpoint of...occasionally India, though Astrakhan occupied first place as an oriental mart in Russia. Astrakhan was a spacious, well...diplomatic relations between Russia and China. 53 Besides...
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Russia and the Soviet Union: An Historical Introduction from the Kievan State to the Present
Book by John M. Thompson; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Russia (Federation)--History, Russia--History, Soviet Union--History
...without knowing the alphabet?" Russia needed to establish a much...In attempting to transform Russia Peter was determined and ruthless...Peter broke out in southeastern Russia, centered on the city of Astrakhan, in 1705. Peter was then...
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Russia and Asia
Book by A. Lobanov-Rostovsky; Macmillan, 1933
Subjects: Russia--Foreign Relations
...definitely in favour of Russia, her advance into Asia...of Crimea, Kazan and Astrakhan. The first of these...mine, he stormed the city and captured it. Astrakhan followed in 1556, and by these two victories Russia at one stroke reached...
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Culture and Customs of Russia
Book by Sydney Schultze; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Russia (Federation)--Civilization, Russia (Federation)--Social Life And Customs
...From this point on, Russia was a relatively unified...with Moscow as its chief city. Ivan the Greats grandson...himself crowned tsar of Russia. Ivan called together...then moved south to take Astrakhan. The most famous and beautiful building in Russia, St. Basils Cathedral...
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journal articles on: Astrakhan City Russia  - 17 results

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Apocalyptic Visions and Rational Responses: Fire Narratives in Fin-de-siecle Russia
Journal article by Cathy A. Frierson; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 38, 1996
Subjects: Fires, Future, History, Journalism, Newspapers, Peasants, Rural areas, Russia-pre-1917
...of readers across European Russia into a shared experience of...only fires, but arson also in Russia, are an ordinary affair...of rural fire and arson in Russia, Pogodin pointed out that...student unrest in university cities and growing problems in Poland...in different quarters of the city. The fires that broke out...
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Russia, the West, and the Caspian Energy Hub
Journal article by Robert V. Barylski; The Middle East Journal, Vol. 49, 1995
Subjects: Caspian Sea, Economic development, Energy policy, International trade, Petroleum industry, Russia
...Russian interests. Third, Russia could follow a pragmatic but...Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. Russia evacuated its well-developed...and relocated its fleet to Astrakhan at the northern end of the...Pavel Grachev proposed that Russia withdraw its military forces...
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How to Entrench a de Facto State Church in Russia: a Guide in Progress
Journal article by Robert C. Blitt; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, 2008
Subjects: Church & state, Eastern Orthodox churches, Influence, Public policy, Russia
...state contacts in Russia. For example, Igor...line, the Moscow City Court and the Prosecutor...civil authorities Ui Russia refused to register...cooperation of the city authorities for establishing...Voronezh region and the city of Ulyanovsk on the...that "localities in Russia are increasingly...
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Federal Reforms in Russia: Putin's Challenge to the Republics
Journal article by James Alexander; Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 12, 2004
Subjects: Democracy, Government, Minority & ethnic groups, Political systems, Presidents, Putin, Vladimir, Reforms, Russia
...of "strong regions-strong Russia," a position also taken by...Examples of the former are the city of Moscow and an oblast such...Balkaria. The emerging question as Russia evolves pertains to which category...for the "gubernizatsiia" of Russia that would largely eliminate...
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The Creation of Criminal Russia
Journal article by Tawnia Sanford; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Crime, Media coverage, Police & crime, Politics & government, Russia, Sociology, Unemployment
...But although Russia saluted the bravery...efforts to rid the city of Caucasians...Ufa, Elista, Astrakhan, and Smolensk...Caucasians from those cities.70 According...are assigned. Russia... especially...streets of our cities.... 82 Such...Democratic Party of Russia.83 While it...
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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
A Bleak Future in Russia by Jamie Dettmer Insight...the million-strong city of Saratov, Russia, a couple of hours...military-industrial cities such as Nizhni Novgorod, Kazan and Astrakhan, where missiles, tanks...showcase for the New Russia, but that hasnt happened...
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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
...heavy throughout the city. Novocherkassk is 375...provinces of European Russia--where historically...aimed at dismembering Russia, whose territorial integrity...were swarthy, too; in Russia as in the West, trouble...based in the Crimean and Astrakhan Tatar khanates--Muslim...
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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
...fate prepared for Russia and the other Soviet...decides to abandon the city. The train carrying...occupy the main cities of the Soviet Union...it seems, and Russia is almost crushed...into the forests of Russia, Belorussia and...through Kazan to Astrakhan. Retaining the...no use for the city and for Hitler it...
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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
...the caviar capital of Russia if not of the planet...caviar during a visit to Astrakhan last fall, shopkeepers...and accompany them to Astrakhan. Every few miles along...of the horn. Back in Astrakhan the poachers deliver...two days to Brest, a city in Belarus near the...
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The Caviar 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: Caviar--Supply and demand, Fish industry--Economic aspects, Poaching--Economic aspects, Russia, Sturgeon fishing--Economic aspects
...the caviar capital of Russia if not of the planet...caviar during a visit to Astrakhan last fall, shopkeepers...and accompany them to Astrakhan. Every few miles along...of the horn. Back in Astrakhan the poachers deliver...two days to Brest, a city in Belarus near the...
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newspaper articles on: Astrakhan City Russia  - 4 results

 
 
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U.N. Halts Exports of Caspian Caviar; Seeks End to Rampant Poaching
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2004
...diminishing the population. Last year, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran...Caspian governments - notably in Russia and Kazakhstan, the main culprits...and ubiquitous corruption. In Astrakhan, the city at the head of the delta of Russias...
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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
...Consortium (CPC) will be Russia, 24 percent; Kazakhstan...was founded in 1992 by Russia, Kazakhstan and Oman...Sea through the Russian city of Astrakhan and on to a new port...sandwiched as they are between Russia and Iran, the Kazakhs...
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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
...Vasilyev, a professor at Astrakhan State University, said...general location of the city on the Silk Road was...what is now southern Russia and Ukraine, the Caucasus...Russian Caspian Sea port of Astrakhan, Vasilyev said. It...In many ways, Russia is a successor of the...
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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
...life. The North Beach area of the city spawned the Beat Poets movement...borrowed a white fur coat and matching astrakhan hat from the Three Lions fur shop...countries such as India, Egypt and Russia. For information about vaccinations...


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encyclopedia articles on: Astrakhan City Russia  - 3 results

 
 
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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 on the Volga Rivers southern delta...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...capital and largest city. In its political meaning, the term Russia applies to the Russian...Republics (USSR); the Russia Federation was established...Subdivisions and Major Cities Administratively...precedence over the other cities. After the victory...crowned czar of all Russia. He conquered the...Kazan (1552) and Astrakhan (1556), establishing...
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Kremlin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...walled center of several Russian cities; the most famous is in Moscow...Thus a kremlin constituted a city in itself, containing palaces...preserved include those of Moscow, Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod (formerly...Kremlin The kremlin in the city of Moscow is known simply as...the seat of the government of Russia...


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