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Orenburg Cossacks
Host of Cossacks in Orenburg Governorate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Orenburg Cossack Host (Russian: Оренбургское казачье войско) was a part of the Cossack population in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in the Orenburg province (today's Orenburg Oblast, part of the Chelyabinsk Oblast and Bashkortostan).
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