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Semipalatinsk Province

Semipalatinsk

also: Семипалатинская область, Семипалатинскую

A steppe province of Russian Central Asia (present-day eastern Kazakhstan), recommended by Chekhov to Smagin, alongside the Ussuri territory, as a warmer resettlement destination for famine-displaced Ukrainian ("Khokhol") peasants than Tomsk or Tobolsk provinces.

Mentioned in 2 works (2 mentions)

To A. I. Smagin, 26 January 1892. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
Sakhalin Island Nonfiction · 1 mention

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