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	Encyclopedia: Tobol River
		The length of the Tobol River is 1591 km.
		Iset River (Ð˜ÑÐµÑ‚ÑŒ in Russian) is a river in the Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, and Tyumen Oblasts in Russia.
		Tobolsk is a river port and lumber centre at the confluence of the River Tobol and River Irtysh in northern Tyumen, in the Russian Federation, in western Siberia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tobol-River (542 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ob river
		The Katun River (Катунь in Russian) is a river in the Altai Krai in Russia.
		, the Tym and the Vakh The Vakh River (Вах in Russian) is a river in Khantia-Mansia (Tyumen Oblast) in Russia.
		The Biya River (Бия in Russian) is a river in the Altai Krai in Russia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/ob-river (1769 words)

	Tobol River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		river rising from the glaciers on the southwestern slopes of the Altai Mountains in Sinkiang, China.
		In 1553 the fortified settlement of Tsaryovo Gorodishche was founded on a large ancient tumulus or artificial mound (Russian kurgan); it became a town in 1782, and by the late 19th century it was the focus of the surrounding farming area, especially after the building of...
		It lies at the confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9072706 (745 words)

	Irtysh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irtysh River (Иртыш ; Kazakh: Ertis / Эртiс ; Tatar: İrteş / Иртеш) a river in Asia, the chief tributary of the river Ob.
		Passenger, freight boats and tankers navigate most of the river between April and October, when it is not frozen.
		The river banks were occupied by Chinese, Kalmyks, and Mongols until the Russians arrived in the late 16th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irtysh_River (239 words)

	Irtysh River -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		River rising in the Altai Mountains in Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
		One of the greatest rivers of Asia, the Ob flows north and west across western Siberia in a twisting diagonal from its sources in the Altai Mountains to its outlet through the Gulf of Ob into the Kara Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
		river in Kazakstan and Tyumen and Omsk oblasti (provinces) of south-central Russia.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9368212 (851 words)

	Kyrgyzstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In Europe, it is not uncommon for rivers to rise in one country and flow into and through other countries on their way to the sea.
		The quality of these rivers is at considerable risk from insufficiently treated polluting matter discharged from industrial and municipal sources as well as diffuse inputs from land.
		The Kura, Seversky-Donetz and Tobol river basins are included in a group of eight transboundary rivers in Europe selected for a pilot programme, to provide details for a set of guidelines on monitoring and assessment.
	www.arcadis.ru /projects/jrm.html (468 words)

	techa_cor.htm
		The radioactivity was accumulated predominantly in river bottom sediments: the ratio of concentrations in bottom sediments to water concentration varies in the 100-1000 fold depending on the nature of the sediments.
		Eventually samples of river sediments and flood plain soils were collected at different locations along the river and a number of radiation dose-rate measurements were made in air near the river edge, in the streets of the villages and in houses.
		Later, after the wells and pipes construction and prohibition of usage of the river water, the main source of radionuclides intake was the milk from cows pastured in the contaminated territories.
	phys4.harvard.edu /~wilson/publications/pp747/techa_cor.htm (11404 words)

	Irtysh
		It is the chief tributary of the Ob and one of the two major rivers of W Siberia.
		The river banks were occupied by Chinese, Kalmyks, and Mongols until the Russians arrived in the late 16th cent.
		Baraba Steppe - Baraba Steppe, agricultural district, SW Siberian Russia, between the Ob and the Irtysh rivers.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0825519.html (201 words)

	Excavation of the Baitovo site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is situated on the right bank of the extremely meandering old channel of the Tobol river.
		The valley of the Tobol river is 5-7 km of width and it is very rich by biological resources.
		An artifacts scattered in the surface are represented by pottery of two chronological periods: the Neolithic, concentrating mainly along the river border, and of the Iron Age, depositing in the rest area.
	www2.usu.ru /arch_laboratory/eng/report/baitsurv.htm (664 words)

	Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet
		In the early 1950s there were so many occurrences of death and disease from the nuclear waste dumping in the Techa river that 22 villages along the river banks in a 50 kilometers zone downstream from Mayak were evacuated.
		The river system is currently in the process of a natural deactivation that will take a few hundred years.
		A report on the health of the people living on the banks of the Techa River was published in 1991, which showed that the incidence of leukemia increased by 41% since 1950.
	www.wentz.net /radiate/cheyla (3017 words)

	Tobol River History Summary
		A tributary of the Irtysh, the Tobol River rises in the southern Urals of northwest Kazakhstan not far from the Russian border and flows in a roughly northerly direction first across the Turgay Plateau and then, after crossing the border into Russia, across the West Siberian lowland.
		Of this the lower 437 kilometers are navigable, the river being used among other things to float timber to the main waterway of the Irtysh.
		The river's length and the two distinct geographical areas (the high-altitude dry steppe of the Turgay Plateau and the temperate rain forest of the Siberian taiga) through which it flows give it distinct characteristics.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/tobol-river-ema-05 (311 words)

	SECTION 4
		Because the river is growing shallower, the water is taken more from the surface, which is the most polluted.
		Today, the Severnaya Dvina river can no longer be used as a source of potable water as its 9 out of 14 water intakes are supplying water that is dangerous to drink.
		The scheduled sampling of water in the rivers of the Novosibirsk region performed in March, 1999 showed that almost all the water is polluted with ammonia nitrogen.
	www.fsumonitor.com /MHG_99/MHG_4.shtml (5950 words)

	CLDP-Partnering Communities Profiles
		With a population of approximately 1.1 million, the Kurgan Oblast is a primarily agricultural region located in the south of Russia's West Siberian Plain and bordering Kazakhstan in the Tobol River basin.
		Located in east-central Wisconsin, Appleton and 13 other communities along the state's Fox River have come to be known as the "Fox Cities" or the "Fox River Valley." The fourteen communities are cities, villages, and towns of varying sizes, including Appleton, Kaukauna, Menasha, and Neenah.
		The City of Kaukauna is located on the Fox River between the waters of Green Bay and Lake Winnebago.
	www.openworld-aiha-communityleadership.org /english/kurappl.htm (473 words)

	UK-Russia Closed Nuclear Cities Partnership \| Closed Cities Profiles
		It used to be discharged into the open hydrographic drainage system connected to the Techa River (similar technology was used in the US at that time).
		As a result of the discharge, the Techa River got polluted and it became a significant threat for the health of the people living downstream.
		The radioactive waste is accumulated on the bottom of the river.
	www.pe-international.ru /eng/cities/ozersk/environ.shtml (1415 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Places of the World (Tn-Tz)
		Tonle Sap is a lake on a tributary of the Mekong River in Western Cambodia.
		The River Tummel is a tributary of the River Tay.
		The River Tweed rises in the Tweedsmuir Hills and flows 156 km to the North Sea at the Scottish and England border.
	fas.org /news/reference/probert/GV.HTM (7656 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News
		Ekaterina Konn has lived near the Tobol river in Kazakhstan for 27 years.
		Heavy rains in neighbouring Russia in late April, however, wreaked havoc in the district of Chelyabinsk, and flood gates were opened as a precautionary measure.
		The water surged down river into the Kustanai region of northern Kazakhstan, causing the Tobol to rise several metres above its normal level without warning.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/00/062701 (443 words)

	Yekaterinburg -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It lies along the Iset River, which is a tributary of the Tobol River, and on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains.
		The city of Ekaterinburg (known as Sverdlovsk from 1924 to 1991) is situated in the northwestern part of Russia, on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains.
		Siberia is a vast expanse of land that stretches across Russia from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077897 (496 words)

	Palaeolithic Monument . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The lake is situated on a terrace of the Tobol river 10 -12 km from the river-bed (Figure 1).
		The topographic situation is determined both in the ancient times and presently by the interaction of the Tobol river basin with the one of the Suier river.
		Both the Slobodchikovo and the Kamyshnoie lakes and some other ones could be connected with the remains of this ancient river.
	sati.archaeology.nsc.ru /gen-i/Editions/Electronical/Bulletens/Herald/Vol1/Chapter4/SHIK.htm (3560 words)

	Hazard Cards - Chelyabinsk
		From 1949 to 1956 76 million m3 liquid radioactive waste was dumped in the Techa river, which is 240 km long and discharges into the river Iset at Dalmatovo.
		The Iset in turn discharges into the river Tobol, which joins with the river Irtysh, which in turn flows into the river Ob.
		In 1967 there was a third dispersal of radioactive waste when one of the lakes used for storage of nuclear waste fell dry during a hot summer and a storm blew nuclear dust across a vast area around Lake Karachay.
	www.hazardcards.com /card.php?id=33 (431 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Siberia
		In 1499 the territory along the lower course of the River Obi was taken.
		In 1580 Yermak carried Tyumen by storm, in 1581 he advanced to the mouth of the Tobol River, and in October of that year completely defeated Kutchurn's army on the Tchuvachenberg near the present city of Tobolsk.
		The discovery in 1849 of the estuary of the Amur River by a Russian ship led to a renewed strengthening of the Russian settlements along the Amur; this impulse was powerfully aided by the desire to have a large stretch of coast along an ocean.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13767b.htm (2378 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is located southeast of the Urals on the southern part (Ishimskaya Steppe) of the West Siberian Plain (elevations up to 193 m) in the middle reaches of the Tobol River.
		The fortress garrison was the largest in the entire Tobol River region.
		The main rivers are the Tobol (with the Iset, Miass, Tech, and Sinara rivers), Ui, Kurtamysh, and Yurgamysh.
	www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=392&doc_id=-49 (1857 words)

	Satellite Images: Irtysh and Tobol Rivers, city of Tobolsk, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Irtysh River and the Tobol River exhibit dramatic course changes and the rivers merge (slightly below and left of center) near the city of Tobolsk (less than 100000 people).
		The city is located on the high, eastern bank of the Irtysh River (near center of image).
		The Irtysh River drains westward (lower right) until it merges with the northerly flowing Tobol River (lower left).
	www.redtailcanyon.com /items/4411.aspx (300 words)

	KURGAN - LoveToKnow Article on KURGAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		of Chelyabinsk, and on the left bank of the Tobol, in a wealthy agricultural district.
		Owing to its position at the terminus of steam navigation up the river Tobol, it has become second only to Tyumen as a commercial centre.
		It has a public library and a botanic garden.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KU/KURGAN.htm (123 words)

	Satellite Images: Tobol River, West Siberian Plain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Described by many scientists as the worlds largest unbroken lowland, the West Siberian Plain is a region of numerous river basins and broad expanses of swampy terrain.
		The Tobol River flows northeasterly until it merges with the easterly draining Tavda River and then the Tobol takes an easterly course.
		In particular the Tobol River has an assortment of meander scars and several oxbow lakes that have formed in the wide floodplain of this constantly changing river.
	www.redtailcanyon.com /items/3406.aspx (327 words)

	Burton Holmes on the Trans-Siberian Railroad: Chapter 8
		The station is surrounded by a wilderness of mud; between it and the city flows the rapid Angara, through which the waters of Lake Baikal seek an outlet to the Arctic Ocean.
		I have not told of the other splendid rivers we have crossed, nor have I spoken of the Siberian cities which we passed by night or day,—of Kourgan on the Tobol River, Omsk on Om, Tomsk on the Tom, Krasnoyarsk on the Yenisei, Kansk on the Kan and Nijniudinsk on the Uda.
		Irkutsk is protected on the river side by the most splendid wall of logs that I have ever seen,—a mountain-range of horizontal timber rises along the river bank for several miles.
	www.travelhistory.org /siberia/travelers/bholmes/chapter8/chapter8.htm (760 words)

	Kurganstalmost. Zauralye Region Information
		The Kurgan region is situated in the south-western part of the West Siberian Plain, in the catchment basin of the middle stream line of the Tobol.
		This river is also called the Gates of the Siberia.
		It was founded in 1662 as a peasants' settlement on the Tobol River near the Zarev Kurgan.
	www.kurganstalmost.ru /kurgan_en.htm (837 words)

	Tobol
		Tobol, river, c.1,050 mi (1,690 km) long, rising in the Mugodzhar Hills, NE Kazakhstan.
		356,000), capital of Kurgan region, W Siberian Russia, on the Tobol River.
		Irtysh - Irtysh, river, c.2,650 mi (4,260 km) long, W Siberian Russia and Kazakhstan.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0848932.html (100 words)

	Transsib photo-gallery - Historical Photo-archive - West Siberian line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are photos of West Siberian line (from Chelyabinsk to Ob river) in this Photoarchive subsection.
		Chronologically the time of photographies spreads all over the period from beginning of building of this line (1892) up to the beginning of the 20-s of the XX century.
		Tobol river, bridge near Kurgan, after 1896 (@IA)
	www.transsib.ru /Eng/his-zsib.htm (393 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Tobolsk was founded by Yermak in 1585-86 during the early Russian advance into Siberia.
		Tobolsk is the only town in Siberia and one of the few in Russia which has a standing stone kremlin, or elaborate city-fortress.
		The medieval white walls and towers with an ensemble of churches and palatial buildings spectacularly sited on a high river bank are a national historical and architectural treasure.
	tobolsk.iqexpand.com (285 words)

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