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| | Izhevsk -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | Izhevsk was founded in 1760 as a centre of ironworking and later of armaments, and the city remains a major producer of steel, armaments, machine tools, building machinery, and motorcycles. |
 | | Izhevsk; boreal forest (taiga) covers two thirds of republic; settled by Finno-Ugric Udmurt people; Kazan Empire rule (14th and 15th century) followed by Russian control 1552; became Votskaya Autonomous Oblast 1920, gained... |
 | | Major automobile factories are in Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Ulyanovsk, Izhevsk, and... |
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