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    Orsk (Russian: Орск) is the second largest city in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the steppe about 100 kilometers (62 mi) southeast of the southern...
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    between 1992 and 1995. As of September 2008, two vessels, currently named Orsk and Saratov, were in active service with the 197th Brigade of Landing Ships...
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  • up Orsk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orsk is a city in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Orsk may also refer to: Orsk Airport, serving the city of Orsk Orsk...
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    On 5 April 2024, the Orsk Dam collapsed due to flooding along the Ural River, prompting evacuations. At least six people were injured and damage was estimated...
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    through Magnitogorsk, and around the southern end of the Urals, through Orsk where it turns west for about 300 kilometres (190 mi), to Orenburg, where...
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  • released in paperback on September 23, 2014 through Quirk Books and is set in ORSK, an IKEA-esque store that has been experiencing supernatural phenomena. The...
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  • The Orsk State Pedagogical Institute (Russian: Орский педагогический институт) named after Taras Shevchenko is a pedagogical institution of higher education...
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    Orsk Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Орск) (IATA: OSW, ICAO: UWOR) is an international airport in Russia located 16 km (10 mi) south of Orsk. It services medium-sized...
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  • (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Андре́ев; born 10 April 1957), known as the Orsk Maniac (Russian: Орский маньяк, romanized: Orskiy manyak), is a Russian serial...
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  • Yuzhny Ural Orsk is an ice hockey team in Orsk, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of ice hockey in Russia. The original club (then Yuzhuralmash)...
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    a Russian landing ship docked in Berdiansk—initially reported to be the Orsk and then its sister ship, the Saratov—was destroyed by a Ukrainian rocket...
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    Flight 703 was a domestic passenger flight from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to Orsk Airport in Russia. On 11 February 2018, the aircraft serving the flight,...
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  • Taganrog 77. Nalchik 78. Shakhty 79. Bratsk 80. Nizhnekamsk 81. Dzerzhinsk 82. Orsk 83. Khimki 84. Angarsk 85. Blagoveshchensk 86. Podolsk 87. Engels 88. Stary...
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    the Ural Mountains and Siberia. Snow melt caused freshets resulting in the Orsk Dam collapsing. In Russia, a federal emergency was declared. Hundreds of...
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    the Caspian Sea and contacted the Khan of Khiva. Guryev Uralsk Orenburg Orsk Troitsk Petropavlovsk Omsk Pavlodar Semipalatinsk Ust Kaminogorsk Bukhara...
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    of the Ural (Yaik)River. The old settlement was named the Orsk fortress (now the city of Orsk). On August 6, 1741, the new town was laid out. However,...
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    The Orsk constituency (No.144) is a Russian legislative constituency in Orenburg Oblast. The constituency covers eastern Orenburg Oblast. No.133 in 1993-2007...
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    a Ukrainian drone attacked the Voronezh M long-range radar station near Orsk. Population: 1,862,767 (2021 Census); 2,033,072 (2010 Census); 2,179,551 (2002...
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  • Orsk is a former airbase of the Russian Air Force located northeast of Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, The base was home to the 750th Training Aviation...
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    Komarov had to be able to see the Sun. To reach the designated landing site at Orsk, the retro-fire had to take place on the night side of the Earth. Komarov...
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    from the south in India and Southeast Asia. Russia built its first outpost, Orsk, in 1735. Russia introduced the Russian language in all schools and governmental...
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  • Orsk [ɔrsk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudna, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies...
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    Lekhtusi Armavir Pionersky Mishelevka Yeniseysk Barnaul Orsk Vorkuta Olenegorsk Voronezh radars (Russian: РЛС Воронеж) are the current generation of Russian...
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    Vladimir Makanin (category People from Orsk)
    Semyonovich Makanin (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Маканин; 13 March 1937 in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union – 1 November 2017 in Krasny [ru], Aksaysky...
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    Orenburg, on the border with Kazakhstan. In the east Novotroitsk almost borders Orsk: the distance between the two cities is less than 2 kilometers (1.2 mi)....
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    Grigory Naginsky (category People from Orsk)
    Naginskiy (Russian: Григорий Михайлович Нагинский; born June 16, 1958, in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian politician, Candidate of Sciences. Senator...
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    in Volgograd, and streets were named after him in Almaty, Dnipro, Odesa, Orsk, Tver and Ufa. An Aeroflot passenger plane and a container cargo ship carry...
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    education in 1957 and found employment as a mechanic in an oil refinery in Orsk. He worked there until 1962, except for his military service[citation needed]...
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  • Yulia Kuzina (category People from Orsk)
    Yulia Kuzina, Russian: Юлия Валерьевна Кузина; born 25 October 1976, in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian judoka, who played for the middleweight category...
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    the Ural Mountains (Sverdlovsk, Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Orsk) are dominated by mining and processing of metals and suburban agriculture...
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