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Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the
USSR, it lies W of the Volga, 560 km/350 mi E
of Moscow; area 18,300 sq km /7,100 sq mi;
population (1986) 1,320,000. The capital is
Cheboksary, population (1985) 389,000. The
economy is based on lumbering and
grain-growing and there are phosphate and
limestone deposits and electrical and
engineering industries.