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  1. Industrial city (flour, agricultural
  2. machinery, leather) in the Kazakh Republic,
  3. USSR, on the Ishim river, the Trans-Siberian
  4. railway, and the Transkazakh line, opened
  5. 1953; population (1987) 233,000. A former
  6. caravan station, it was founded as a Russian
  7. fortress 1782.
  8.