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  Tura River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tura River, also known as Dolgaya River (Long River) (Тура́, Долгая in Russian) is a river in the Sverdlovsk Oblast and Tyumen Oblast in Russia.
The length of the river is 1030 km.
The cities of Verhnyaya Tura, Nizhnyaya Tura, Verkhotur'ye, Turinsk and Tyumen are located on the Tura River.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cosimo Tura
Tura, Cosimo (1430?-1495), Italian artist of the early Renaissance, born in Ferrara, founder of the Ferrara school of painting.
Tyumen’, city, capital of Tyumen’ Oblast, Russia, in western Siberian Russia, on the Tura River and the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
The population of Evenkia is 25,000 (1997 estimate).
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 Search Results for Tyumen' - Encyclopædia Britannica
It lies on the Poluy River at its entrance to the Ob River.
river in Kazakstan and Tyumen and Omsk oblasti (provinces) of south-central Russia.
River, north-central Kazakhstan and the Tyumen and Omsk provinces of...
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 Turna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Tura (in Latin and Hungarian: Torna, in German: Tornau) is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) in southern eastern Slovakia and northern present-day Hungary from a time when Slovakia was part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
The capital of the county was the Turna Castle, later the town of Turna nad Bodvou.
It is a tributary of the Bodva river.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Slovak-rivers/Turna.html   (137 words)

  
 District Profile
The important rivers of the southern group are the Bhogai, Dareng etc. The Tura range is also the source of the Simsang (Someswari), one of the major rivers of Meghalaya, whose valley is of the most important feature in the South Garo Hills.
It is the longest river in the Garo Hills districts.
Tura, the headquarters of the district, is well connected by road with other places in the district as well as with the rest of the Meghalaya and Assam.
westgarohills.nic.in /profile.htm   (1422 words)

  
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Tura is a name used across parts of the region to refer to people whose ethnicity is often known as ‘Pawaia’.
The Purari River, flowing through the south of the Pio-Tura region, and its catchment area, form the third most extensive water system in Papua New Guinea after the Sepik and the Fly (Petr, T., ed., 1983:X).
The Pio-Tura area rises from stretches of navigable river to the edge of the highlands, with an estimated altitude range of 100-1500 metres above sea level.
lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Rainforest/frp-website/Publications/Ellis/Sipptend/4SIPPTEND.html   (322 words)

  
 Chapter 1
The bed of the river is flanked by steep and well defined banks but occasionally the water rises in heavy floods, inundating the lower land in the neighbourhood.
This river, which is also known as the Naryani and in Nepal, as Saligrami flowing in the north-east of tahsil Maharajganj enters the Deoria district.
The sand found in the rivers is medium to coarse grained, greyish white to brownish in colour and is suitable for construction purposes.
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 Tyumen --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It is situated on both banks of the Tura River at its crossing by the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Founded in 1587, it was one of the chief centres of early Russian colonization in Siberia because it lay along an important river route to the east, but it declined when bypassed by the Trans-Siberian Railroad in the 1890s.
Situated on the Irtysh River near its confluence with the Ob River, the city was formed in 1950 from the urban settlement of Khanty-Mansiysk (founded 1931) and the village of Samarovo.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074032?tocId=9074032   (384 words)

  
 russia
The principal rivers are the Ural, Ob and Volga.
upper Lena and Trans-Biakalia, on the rivers of the Vitim - Olekma -
October and the entire river is frozen by early December.
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 Vitus Bering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
It was this immense lowland of steppes and wet tundra, containing some of the world’s largest rivers that are frozen from October until May, that Vitus Bering and his crew now had to cross with their heavy load of supplies.
The Ob River is approximately 5400 kilometers long, and along its course through steppes and tundra there are many kilometers of boggy meadows which in summer are swarming with enormous numbers of mosquitoes.
The east Siberian highland, which stretches from the Lena River in the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east, is primarily an untracked and wild mountain landscape with peaks reaching to 3000 meters and occasional highland plateaus.
www.dpc.dk /PolarPubs/Digital/VitusBering.html   (4956 words)

  
 Russian Cities: Tyumen
Tyumen is the capital of the Tyumen region, on the Tura River in South Western SIberian Russia.
The city is a major transfer point for river and rail freight.
The area surrounding the city is rich in petroleum and natural gas, and the city itself has machine plants and shipyards.
www.russiannewsnetwork.com /tyumen.html   (92 words)

  
 Russian River Ships - Russian Shipbuilding Industry
The plant in Kiliya (Odessa Region, Ukraine), Danube river.
The plant and the base of fleet in Ust-Kut (port Osetrovo, Irkutsk Region), Lena river.
River and sea ships, ship equipment, repair and operation of ships.
www.riverships.ru /english/russian_industry.shtml   (1452 words)

  
 Tyumen on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
477,000), capital of Tyumen region, SW Siberian Russia, on the Tura River.
On the Trans-Siberian RR, Tyumen is a major transfer point for river and rail freight.
The surrounding area is rich in petroleum and natural gas.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tyumen.asp   (299 words)

  
 HISTORY
Like a giant lifeline in the midst of desperation, the Nile River, longest river in the world, cuts a swath of green and life through the barrenness of the giant Sahara desert in North Africa.
Swollen by rains, the river yearly floods the Nile Valley, so that the valley literally turns into isolated islands separated by the high waters.
It was made of limestone blocks quarried across the river at Tura.
www.nileriver.com /nile/history.htm   (481 words)

  
 The Wonders of ancient Egypt
It was made of limestone blocks quarried across the river at Tura.The Great Pyramid must have taken a great many years to build.
One popular and convincing theory is that the peasant farming people of Egypt built all of the temples and monuments, during the floods.
Their ancient culture along the Nile River in northeastern Africa began about 3,300 BC and thrived for over 3,000 years.
www.freewebs.com /benastro/max3.htm   (754 words)

  
 TYUMEN - LoveToKnow Article on TYUMEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
, a town in West Siberia, in the government of Tobolsk, situated^ where the chief highway from Russia across the Urals touches the first navigable river (the Tura) of Siberia.
Tyumen has regular steam communication with Omsk and Semi-palatinsk Irtysh (steamers penetrating as far as Lake Zaisan in Dzungaria), with Tomsk, and other places in the Altai, and with the Arctic Ocean and the fisheries of the lower Ob.
The town is well built, and stands on both banks of the Tura, here spanned by a bridge.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TY/TYUMEN.htm   (178 words)

  
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In spring there is much water by the overflowing of river Tura.
The village is one of ten villages alongside Tura.
In the valley of Tura also is situated the place of pelgrimage Merkushina.
www.xs4all.nl /~johanlub/siberie2.htm   (1244 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Located in a picturesque area on the high banks of the Tura River, the city has about 600,000 inhabitants.
The climate is continental, characterized by rather severe snowy winters, warm summers and short transitional seasons.
The steep banks of the Tura River also provide panoramic views of the whole Siberian plain.
www.utmn.ru /english/about-2.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Program Management B.C. - June 1999 Civil Engineering Magazine Feature Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The exterior courses of the pyramid were constructed of white Tura limestone casing stones, which were cut and fitted more accurately than the interior core stones.
An interesting possibility to consider is that the capstone might have been brought up to the last level that was reachable by a ramp and then jacked up as the balance of the pyramid was constructed—that is, the pyramid was built beneath it and it rose with the remaining levels.
The pyramid was finished with white limestone casing stones from the quarry across the Nile River at Tura.
www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/0699feat.html   (4806 words)

  
 Blog
We had delicious dinners, went on fun outings like a cruise on the Columbia River and a night at a luxury movie theater, but most fun of all was seeing Mony and Venezia together.
I usually sing a few songs before bed, and I've been singing mostly the same songs since she was born.
Anyway, tonight I was singing Old Man River, and I sang the first verse myself, then when I got to "Tote that..." I paused, and sure enough her little voice offered a clear "Barge"...
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 Free Essays on Rasputin
Although later enemies were to allege that Rasputin's surname was in fact an insult meaning "debauched" in Russian, it had been the family name for years, derived from the word for a fork in the road.
Pokrovskoye perched on the banks of the Tura River in Tobolsk Province; Pokrovskoye was a typical Russian peasant village where few if any were educated and town’s people were religious, narrow minded and fearful.
He was playing with his older brother along the banks of the Tura when Dimitri fell and was drowned.
www.123student.com /4719.htm   (2748 words)

  
 Pilgrim
Jekaterinabridge crossing river Tagil north of Mugai is monumental.
Especially alongside river Rech this is of an extraordinary beauty by the high riverbanks, natural river-accompaning woods and the blinking waters.
The landscape alongside river Rech is exiting and lies in the first part.
www.xs4all.nl /~johanlub/pilgrim.htm   (7078 words)

  
 Poland, partitions of
Stanislaus II of Poland was unable to resist his three neighbors.
The partition of 1772 gave Pomerelia and Ermeland to Prussia, Latgale and Belarus E of the Dvina and Dnieper rivers to Russia, and Galicia to Austria.
When in 1791 the remainder of Poland showed signs of regeneration, particularly in the adoption of a new constitution, a Russian army invaded Poland (1792).
www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0839493.html   (331 words)

  
 Aquatic Warbler in Western Siberia - Expedition Report
On 25 June both teams met in Tyumen' and went to Tobolsk, from there we visited the huge sedge fen mires between Tobol and Ishim rivers as well as the Jarovskoe mire by helicopter.
Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus: The observation of 4 birds in the Tura floodplain (flooded crops and meadows) E Borki, NE Tyumen, represents the westernmost record of this species at all and the second record in Omsk and Tyumen Oblasts since 90 years (see LIMICOLA 2/2001).
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus: A small breeding colony of 4 pairs NE Tyumen and a record in the Tobol floodplain S of Tobolsk are north of the known range.
www.nabu.de /nh/401/aquaticwarbler401.htm   (984 words)

  
 Rasputin - LawOf1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Grigory Yefimovich Novykh was born on July 10, 1869 in a small village in Siberia on the banks of the Tura River his early life is a mystery, oral tradition of his two siblings Maria and Dimitri would be one source.
Legend has it this was still not enough to do the job and Rasputin was rolled up in carpet, then dumped beneath the ice of the Moika Canal on the Neva River.
The Tsar was enraged Youssoupov and the other’s survived the killings to come, thanks to the Exile eventually imposed upon them by the Tsar.
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 A Band of Adventurers Defeats a Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
After traveling as far up the river as they could go, they portaged across the Urals (the mountains being gentle in this region), and then floated down the tributaries of the Irtysh.
One of them, named Tauzak, was a member of the court of the tsar [here meaning Kuchum Khan, not the Russian tsar]; he told them all about the Siberian tsars and princes and horsemen and about Tsar Kuchum.
Most of the Cossacks were killed, and Ermak himself drowned while attempting to swim to the boats in the river.
www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=408891   (5271 words)

  
 Running Club North, Fairbanks, Alaska - Ultra Staffellauf
The change was noticeable mostly by the disappearance of densely populated residential areas and the appearance of mostly forest and farmland.
The city, built primarily in the hills overlooking the Klyazma River, is located astride the Vladimir Road (route of today's Highway M7), the route by which those banished to Siberia walked into exile.
Our biggest thrill was crossing the Volga River Bridge at very high speed - now with the siren on and warnings coming from the loudspeaker - cars scattered in both directions as we flew across the very center of the bridge.
www.runningclubnorth.org /ru_relay.htm   (12640 words)

  
 For Sale : A.I.M.E. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Geologic and economic survey of the clay deposits of the lower Hudson River Valley.
Coking, in Beehive ovens, of the coals of the New River District, West Virginia.
Lead-Zinc exploration in the Gays river district of Nova Scotia.
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 Siberia
On August 17 the train arrived at Tiumen, which was by the side of the Tura river.
Here the family and their suite had continue they trip by ship.
They boarded the steamer Russ wich would take them to Tobolsk that was 320 kilometers to the north-east up the Tobol and Tura rivers.
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 The Evil Monk: The life and times of Gregory Efimovich Rasputin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Gregory Efimovich was born on January 10, 1869, in Prokovskoe, a small village in Siberia on the banks of the Tura River.
The monk fell in the trap and willingly arrived at the Youssoupov palace in the evening of December 16, 1916.
Yet the staretz survived all these and actually died by drowning when his body, wrapped in a carpet was thrown into the Moika Canal on the Neva River.
www.eurohistory.com /Rasputin.html   (3718 words)

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