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Kainsk

also: Каинск

A Siberian town on the Trakt west of ("before") Tomsk, distinct from but easily confused with Kansk (which Chekhov passed further east); he jokes that the two towns together would make one nondescript "Zvenigorod."

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To the Chekhovs, 31 May 1890. Kansk. letter · 1 mention

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