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	Ramsar Sites Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Krasnovodsk and North-Cheleken Bays are situated directly to the southeast of Krasnovodsk, which is the main port at the southern end of the east coast of the Caspian Sea.
		Krasnovodsk and North-Cheleken Bays are good examples of saltwater lakes characteristic to the eastern Caspian Sea coast.
		The saline to brackish waters of the two bays are separated from the Caspian Sea by the low Krasnovodsk and North-Cheleken Islands, and a chain of smaller islands.
	www.wetlands.org /RDB/Ramsar_Dir/X-USSR/ZZ003D02.htm (633 words)

	Turkmenistan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In addition to the capital, Turkmenbashi (Krasnovodsk), Chärjew, Nebitdag, Dashhowuz, and Mary are the major cities and industrial centers.
		In the early 19th cent., the Turkmens became subject to the khanate of Khiva.
		In 1869, Russian military forces founded Krasnovodsk (now Turkmenbashi) and began to conquer the Turkmens, whose fierce resistance to Russian encroachment was broken in 1881 with the conquest of the Dengil-Tepe fortress.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tu/Turkmeni.html (869 words)

	KRASNOVODSK - LoveToKnow Article on KRASNOVODSK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		, a seaport of Russian Transcaspia, on the N. shore of Balkhan or Krasnovodsk Bay, on the S. side of the Caspian Sea, opposite to Baku, and at 69 ft. below sea-level.
		Krasnovodsk, which is the capital of the Transcaspian province, was founded in 1869
		To properly cite this KRASNOVODSK article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KR/KRASNOVODSK.htm (79 words)

	TRANSCASPIAN REGION - LoveToKnow Article on TRANSCASPIAN REGION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It begins in the Krasnovodsk peninsula of the Caspian, under the names of Kuryanyn-kary and Great Balkans, whose masses of granite and other crystalline rock reach an altitude of some 5350 ft Farther south-east they are continued in the Little Balkans (2000 ft.) and the Kopepet-dagh or Kopet-dagh.
		The winds which impinge upon the northern slope of the mountains have been deprived of all their moisture in crossing the Kara-kum- the Black Sands of the Turkoman desert; and even such rain as falls on the Kopet-dagh (101 in.
		Still, at those places where the mountain streams run closer to one another, as at Geok-tepe, Askhabad, Lutfabad and Kaaka, the villages are more populous, and the houses are surrounded by gardens, every square yard and every tree of which is nourished by irrigation.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TRANSCASPIAN_REGION.htm (1083 words)

	CRTC for ITCAMP: Coastal Profiles. Turkmenistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eroded scarps are situated at northern edge of the Krasnovodsk plateau, with a steep face turned toward the Karabogazgol gulf.
		A scarp with the altitude 220 m is facing the sea in the north of the Turkmenbashi (Krasnovodsk) gulf, its northern side is gently sloping and gradually turns to the Krasnovodsk plateau.
		At the Krasnovodsk peninsula, the sea accumulated the presently fixed sand massif Barsa-Gelmes, inundated the flat clayey prolluvial-estuarine Misrian plain.
	www.caspianenvironment.org /itcamp/turkmen1.htm (8791 words)

	Turkmenistan.it - türkmenbaşy
		Situated on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in the homony-mous gulf, Turkmenbashi, formerly Krasnovodsk, was founded in 1869 as a first outpost of Russian presence in Turkmenistan.
		With the construction of the Transcaspian railway line, connecting it to Ash-gabat since 1880, the city became, thanks to its port, the main com-mercial pole of the country for the exportation of cotton.
		After the pro-clamation of the independence of Turkmenistan, occurred in 1991, some considerable works of enlargement of the structures of the port have been started with the object of transforming Turkmenbashi into a modern port, adequate to the current requirements of the country.
	www.turkmenistan.it /turkmenbashigb.html (216 words)

	Khiva Russia War 1873
		Following annexation to Russia, the area was administered as the Trans-Caspian District by corrupt and malfeasant military officers and officials appointed by the Guberniya (Governorate General) of Turkestan.
		In the 1880s, a railroad line was built from Krasnovodsk to Ashgabat and later extended to Tashkent.
		Markosov was operating from Chikishlar instead of the larger base at Krasnovodsk because it was thought that camels would be more easily obtained at the former.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/romeo/russokhivan1873.htm (3086 words)

	Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan, Pictures
		Although a fort had existed on the site since 1717, Krasnovodsk was founded as a town in 1869, and it assumed importance when it became the western terminus of the Trans-Caspian Railroad in 1896.
		The town lacks a supply of fresh water, which must be imported or desalinized from the salty Caspian Sea.
		Krasnovodsk is an important gateway to central Asia and is a center for the import and export of a variety of products.
	www.greatestcities.com /Asia/Turkmenistan/Krasnovodsk_town.html (163 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The tanker moored in the port of its registration, Turkmenbashi (former Krasnovodsk), on Sunday.The river-to-sea oil tanker with the capacity of 5,000 tonnes was built in Turkey.
		This is to run from Baku to Krasnovodsk of Turkmenistan, and from there to the Iranian port of Mashhad...
		Surakhani refineries at Baku, and the Krasnovodsk refinery on the eastern shore of the...
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=SS&search_newspapers=on&search_magazines=on&q=Krasnovodsk&refid=ency_botnm (471 words)

	Railroads Asia - The Transcaspian Road
		This stretch and its continuation to the Oxus is through the celebrated Kara Kum or Black Sand Desert, a level expanse broken occasionally by oases, where a river or well furnishes water in the sandy waste.
		The builders were fortunate in the matter of fuel; there was little coal or wood, but there are some of the richest oil-fields in the world in the territory between the Black and the Caspian Seas.
		Tank steamers carried the oil to Krasnovodsk; and the locomotives of the Transcaspian road were furnished with a special oil-burning apparatus.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles25/railroads-40.shtml (664 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Anatoli Alexandrovich Mitrofanov was born on February 21, 1962 in Krasnovodsk city in Turkmen SSR.
		He was the Head of the Regional Children's Reanimation Clinics in Krasnovodsk city.
		There were no karate school in those days in Krasnovodsk so he studied karate by himself sharing his knowledge with his friends and his first students.
	ok.novgorod.net /seibukan/uk/html/mitrofanov.html (623 words)

	Mutual UFO Network
		When the UFO approached the town of Krasnovodsk, a helicopter was scrambled to make an attempt to shoot the intruder down, but the UFO quickly climbed and hovered at the altitude that was inaccessible for the helicopter.
		In 1985 a radar station under Captain L. Valuev in the Krasnovodsk region registered an unknown object at an altitude of 20,000 meters.
		This smaller disc-shaped UFO landed at the Krasnovodsk spit.
	www.mufon.com /znews_kgb.html (1613 words)

	Turkmenistan Electronic Mass Media
		The capital, Ashgabat, is the largest city, with a population of about 400,000; the four other main cities, the veloiat capitals of Chardzhou, Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi), Mary, and Tashouz, each have a population of under 150,000, and all other population centers are much smaller.
		In some of the large cities (Chardzhou, Krasnovodsk, Mary) cable TV remains but is extremely weak (subscribers number in the hundreds) and shows no production of its own.
		In 1993 there were commercial TV channels in several of the republic's cities--at a minimum, in Ashgabat, Krasnovodsk, and Dashkhovuz.
	www.eurasianet.org /resource/turkmenistan/links/turkmsmd.html (2870 words)

	Turkmenistan: Mukhametkuli Aymuradov and Khoshali Garayev Possible Prisoners of Conscience
		Both were already serving sentences of 15 and 12 years respectively in Krasnovodsk maximum security prison after being found guilty in 1995 of anti-state crimes including plotting to assassinate the President of Turkmenistan.
		Amnesty International had been calling for the 1995 convictions to be reconsidered, fearing that the charges against Mukhametkuli Aymuradov and Khoshali Garayev had been fabricated and that the men were being punished solely because of their association with exiled opponents of the government of Turkmenistan.
		It was originally reported that the new trial would be held on 30 November 1998 in a closed court in the maximum security prison at Krasnovodsk where the two were serving their sentences, and that only the prisoners' lawyers would be allowed access.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/turkmenistan/document.do?id=D52C2E6CC38813D4802569A500543B9E (3384 words)

	RN's Caspian Operations
		The land bordering the sea was mostly desert but there was a small port, Krasnovodsk (now Trkmenbashi), opposite Baku and from it a railway to the interior of Central Asia and the Afghan border.
		Both the railway and the port were strategically important and a considerable quantity of raw cotton, an important war material, was awaiting shipment at the port and along the railway.
		There was clearly no point in the RN Caspian Flotilla remaining in Krasnovodsk and they returned to Baku, where they arrived 17 November 1918.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/caspian.htm (5821 words)

	2005 Population Figures for Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ashgabat and the petrochemical plant in Turkmenbashi (Krasnovodsk).
		78,400 for Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan is based on a number of factors and sources.
		Please bear in mind that this is only an estimate of the number of people in a given city -- actual figures can be obtained from the U.N. and government sources.
	travel.synabu.com /cities/K/Krasnovodsk,_Turkmenistan.html (231 words)

	Dusharm, Dream of Persia - Caspian Sea or Khazar Sea
		The Caspian coastline is irregular, with large gulfs on the east, including Krasnovodsk Gulf and the very shallow Garabogazköl Gulf, which acts as an evaporation basin and is the site of a major chemical plant that extracts salts from the deposits.
		Navigation is frequently dangerous because of violent southeastern storms, and during the winter months the northern parts of the Caspian Sea are closed by ice.
		The chief ports are Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan; Baku; and Makhachkala, Russia.
	www.dusharm.com /content/view/21/2 (800 words)

	Turkmenistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		However, Krasnovodsk and North-Cheleken Bays was designated as a Ramsar site on 11 October 1976 by the former USSR.
		According to the Alma-Ata Declaration of 21 December 1991, Turkmenistan has undertaken to guarantee "in conformity with their legislative procedures, the fulfilment of the international obligations, stemming from the agreements signed by the former USSR", thus the 188,700ha State Nature Reserve (Zapovednik), still maintains it's Ramsar status.
		Along the shoreline, arid scrub vegetation is interspersed with reedbeds of Typha and Phragmites, while the surrounding waters support rich submerged and aquatic vegetation.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /latenews/emergency/turkmenistan_2002 (409 words)

	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Career Services
		In the many years since Peace Corps, I’ve gone to graduate school, worked with a refugee program in the Philippines, and settled down in Lincoln where I teach English to international students at the University of Nebraska.
		A riella Raley was a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Volunteer in Krasnovodsk (Turkmenbashi), Turkmenistan, Central Asia from 1997-1998.
		(Krasnovodsk has a large Armenian community.) I was continually invited for tea and plov - rice made with carrots, onion and meat.
	www.unl.edu /careers/peacecorps/pcprofiles.shtml (1012 words)

	[No title]
		The Turkmen first experienced Russian imperialism in 1869 with the establishment of a Russian seaport on the Caspian Sea called Krasnovodsk (known today as Turkmenbashy) in present day Turkmenistan.
		( HYPERLINK "http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/tmtoc.html" http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/tmtoc.html) From their port at Krasnovodsk, the Russians were able to launch raids against the opposition Khiva Khanate, which were suppressed in 1873.
		Later in the 1880’s, Russia began constructing a railroad system that ran from Krasnovodsk to Ashgabat and eventually to Tashkent.
	psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu /faculty/thopf/classes/ps555countries/Turkmenistan2.doc (708 words)

	Polish Diaspora in Turkmenistan: SR, September 2000
		Anders' army consisted of Polish prisoners of the Gulag whom Stalin allowed to enlist as volunteers in the Polish army fighting the Nazis.
		In Ashkhabad, 59 of them died after a short stay in the hospital, in Krasnovodsk, 81.
		We do not know where their graves are because the archives dealing with that period are not available to us.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/900/tyszkiewicz.html (516 words)

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	Memories of Karen Harutyunyan about the events of January 1990 in Baku
		(Later we learned that they were at the same Armenian-collector cinema, grandmother was taken to Krasnovodsk on the ferry on January 15, and my father and sister – on January 16).
		Azeris wanted to drown the ferry my father and sister were in, but a plane or a helicopter from Krasnovodsk drowned the Azeri boat.
		It seems to me we arrived in Krasnovodsk on January 18 morning.
	www.sumgait.info /baku/baku-eng/karen-harutyunyan-eng.htm (1273 words)

	Agence de Voyage > Voyage > Krasnovodsk Voyage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	www.ebookconnections.com /Krasnovodsk-Voyage.shtml (1014 words)

	BBC - Weather Centre - 5 Day Forecast in Celsius for Krasnovodsk, Russian Federation
		Set Krasnovodsk, Russian Federation to be my hometown
		The weather symbol shown for each day in the five day forecast represents the predominant weather expected on the day in question.
		BBC Weather Centre in association with the Met Office
	www.bbc.co.uk /weather/5day.shtml?world=2340 (179 words)

	Climate information for KRASNOVODSK in Turkmenistan - Climate Zone
		World / Middle East / Turkmenistan / KRASNOVODSK
		The table below displays average monthly climate indicators in KRASNOVODSK based on 8 years of historical weather readings.
		KRASNOVODSK 40 3 N, 52 98 E, 291 feet (89 meters) above sea level.
	www.climate-zone.com /climate/turkmenistan/fahrenheit/krasnovodsk.htm (76 words)

	traveltopia - Krasnovodsk: Flug Hotel Mietwagen Reise Last Minute Pauschal Fly&Drive Billigflug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Alles für Ihre Reise nach Krasnovodsk: Flug nach Krasnovodsk (auch Billigflug bzw.
		Sie haben sich für eine Reise nach Krasnovodsk entschieden.
		Mietwagen in Krasnovodsk mieten - wir machen Ihnen ein Mietwagen-Angebot.
	www.traveltopia.de /Flug/Krasnovodsk-KRW.html (246 words)

	Caspian Sea, Elburz Mountains, Iran
		Discernible is Dasht-e-Kavir (from near left center to near bottom center), a great salt desert and huge basin of interior drainage named after kavirs (salt marshes) that cover large areas within the basin.
		Apparent are clouds above the Kopet Mountains (bottom right center) and the Bay of Krasnovodsk in Turkmenistan (right center).
		Source: Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth at NASA Johnson Space Center.
	www.parstimes.com /spaceimages/caspian_elburz.html (195 words)

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