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| | REGIONAL CORNER: TAGANROG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Taganrog is a small city of about 300,000, located in Southern Russia, where the Don river enters into the Sea of Azov, about 80 kilometers by road from Rostov-on-Don, and close to the Ukrainian border. |
 | | Taganrog also has negotiated a $110 million loan from an 11-bank consortium to expand its airport to first handle international cargo flights and later passenger flights. |
 | | Taganrog has several factories located on the edge of town, but its main breadwinner is its steel/metallurgical factory, which produces oil drilling equipment. |
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