. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ^^^/^fr!% .,fe^^/, .....C-^-S^^A -#^JH^^1 n 5 Miks. colony, at the mouth of the Osereda, up which lies the manufacturing town of Buhtrlinovka, or Petrovskdie, whose inhabitants purchased their freedom from serfdom by paying 2,114,000 roubles to their bankrupt " ; Farther east, in the valley of the Khopor, are Serdohsk, Borisoglehsk, and Noco-Khoporsk, the latter famous on account of its fairs. Kharkov, the largest town in this region, lies in the Donetz valley, and, besides being the capital of a government, acquires considerable import
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ^^^/^fr!% .,fe^^/, .....C-^-S^^A -#^JH^^1 n 5 Miks. colony, at the mouth of the Osereda, up which lies the manufacturing town of Buhtrlinovka, or Petrovskdie, whose inhabitants purchased their freedom from serfdom by paying 2,114,000 roubles to their bankrupt " ; Farther east, in the valley of the Khopor, are Serdohsk, Borisoglehsk, and Noco-Khoporsk, the latter famous on account of its fairs. Kharkov, the largest town in this region, lies in the Donetz valley, and, besides being the capital of a government, acquires considerable importance from its position as the natural intermediary between the Don and Dnieper basins— between Odessa and Taganrog. Here is the converging point of the chief trade routes, although they have now been partly replaced by railways. The Kharkov fairs, especially those of January, are amongst the best attended in Russia,
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