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  1. Industrial city in the USSR, at the junction
  2. of the Or and Ural rivers; population (1987)
  3. 273,000. Industries include mining, oil
  4. refining, locomotives, and aluminium. Its
  5. refineries are fed by a pipeline from Guriev.
  6. The town was originally a fortress.
  7.