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Capital of the Kharkov region, Ukraine, USSR,
400 km/250 mi E of Kiev; population (1987)
1,587,000. It is a railway junction and
industrial city (engineering, tractors),
close to the Donets Basin coalfield and
Krivoy Rog iron mines. Kharkov was founded
1654 as a fortress town. Its university dates
from 1805.