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Barnaul
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of Asiatic Russia, government of Tomsk, standing in a plain bounded by offshoots of the Altai Mountains, and on the Barnaulka river, at its confluence with the Ob, in lat. 53° 20' N. and long. 83° 46' E., 220 m. S. of Tomsk. It is the capital of the Altai mining districts, and besides smelting furnaces possesses glassworks, a bell-foundry and a mint. It has also a meteorological observatory, established in 1841, a mining school and a museum with a rich collection of mineral and zoological specimens. Barnaul was founded in 1730 by A. Demidov, to whose memory a monument has been erected. Pop. (1900) 29,850.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Barnaul'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/barnaul.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Barnaul'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/barnaul.html. 1910.
