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Astrakhan
city in the south of Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Astrakhan (Russian: Астрахань; Tatar: Cyrillic Әстерхан, Latin Ästerxan) is a city on the Volga River in Russia. It is the largest city and administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. In 2010, 520,339 people lived there.
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