KRYVYY RIH

krĭvĭˈ rĭkh, Rus. Krivoy Rog, city (1989 pop. 713,000), SE Ukraine, at the confluence of the Inhulets and Saksagan rivers. It is a rail junction, an industrial center, and a metallurgical and coking center of one of the world's richest iron-mining regions. The city extends 20 mi (32 km) in a narrow belt paralleling the iron ore deposits. Burial mounds in the area indicate that Scythians inhabited it and used the iron deposits. Founded in the 17th cent. by Zaporizhzhya Cossacks, the city received its name (Crooked Horn) because of the shape of the iron-mining area. Kryvyy Rih's industrial growth dates from 1881, when French, Belgian, and other foreign interests founded a mining syndicate. The city has mining and pedagogical institutes.

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On the Edge: Ukrainian-Central European-Russian Security Triangle
Book by Margarita M. Balmaceda; Central European University Press, 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Foreign Relations, Russia (Federation)--Foreign Relations, Ukraine--Foreign Relations
...allurgical complex in Ukraine (Kryvyy Rih-Dolinskaya), which was initiated...of completing construction work in Kryvyy Rih. Thus, the construction of this...a standstill.9 The issue of the Kryvyy Rih metallurgical complex is only one...
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Environmental Resources and Constraints in the Former Soviet Republics
Book by Philip R. Pryde; Westview Press, 1995
Subjects: Environmental Policy--Former Soviet Republics, Former Soviet Republics--Environmental Conditions
...Leninakan Kiev Kyyiv Khudzhand Leninabad Kirovabad Ganca Kryvyy Rih Krivoy Rog Kirovakan Vanadzor Kyyiv Kiev Kishinev Chisinau...Nikolayev Kokand Quqon Nizhniy Novgorod Gorkiy Krivoy Rog Kryvyy Rih Oral Uralsk Kustanay Qostanay Oskemen Ust-Kamenogorsk...
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The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics
Book by Sandra L. Batalden, Stephen K. Batalden; Oryx Press, 1997
Subjects: Former Soviet Republics--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...These include such cities as Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk with populations of more than one million, and Zaporizhzhya and Kryvyy Rih with populations approaching one million. Ukraines second largest city, numbering more than 1.6 million, is Kharkiv...
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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...The Moscow Kremlin. Its History, Architecture and Art Treasures , Berkeley, California, 1954 Krivoy Rog Ukrainian Kryvyy Rih , city in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast southern Ukraine , situated 85 m. south-west of Dnepropetrovsk. Population 1959 386...
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Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business, and the Organization of the Holocaust
Book by Gerald D. Feldman, Wolfgang Seibel; Berghahn Books, 2005
Subjects: Bureaucracy--Germany--History--20th Century, Germany--Economic Policy--1933-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Economic Aspects, Jewish Property--Europe, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei--Schutzstaffel, World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations And Contributions--Europe
...156-57,183, 263,295-315,330 Krumey, Lieut.-Col. Hermann, 220-21 Kiinsberg, Eberhard Baron von, 106 Kryvyy Rih, 244 L La Laurencie, General de, 70 La Samaritaine, 76 Lammers, Hans, 91, 112 Landeck, Silesia, 273 Lasch...


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Kryvyy Rih
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KRYVYY RIH krivi rikh, Rus. Krivoy Rog, city (1989 pop. 713,000), SE Ukraine...its name (Crooked Horn) because of the shape of the iron-mining area. Kryvyy Rihs industrial growth dates from 1881, when French, Belgian, and other...
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Donets Basin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...markets in European areas of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and to large deposits of ferrous metals in Ukraine (Kryvyy Rih, Nikopol). Two types of coal predominate in the Donbas: anthracite, in the south and east (used mainly by thermal...
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Zaporizhzhya
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...supplied with electricity, Zaporizhzhya forms, together with the adjoining Donets Basin and the Nikopol manganese and Kryvyy Rih iron mines, one of Ukraines leading industrial complexes. The high concentration of older industry, however, has...
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Dniprohes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Dnieper River near Zaporizhzhya. The hydroelectric station supplies power for the industrial centers of Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvyy Rih, and Zaporizhzhya. More than 1 / 2 mi (.8 km) long and 200 ft (61 m) high, the dam raised the level of the Dnieper...
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Ukraine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...concentrations. The heavy metallurgical, machine-building, and chemical industries are based on the iron mines of Kryvyy Rih , the manganese ores of Nikopol , and the coking coal and anthracite of the Donets Basin . The Dniprohes dam powers a...
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