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Taganrog| Seaport city in Rostov oblast (region) of the southwestern Russian Federation, on the Sea of Azov, 75 km/47 mi west of Rostov-na-Donu; population (1996 est) 292,000. It is a major industrial centre; factories here produce iron and steel (since 1897), aircraft, ships, and other heavy-engineering products, such as combine-harvesters, boilers, and machine tools. The city also has tanneries and food-processing industries. |
| Taganrog was founded by Peter (I) the Great in 1698 as a naval base, destroyed after the Pruth Treaty with Turkey in 1712, and rebuilt 1769–74. It was occupied by the Germans in 1918 and 1941–43. Taganrog is the birthplace of the 19th-century writer Anton Chekhov. |
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| This happened when I discovered that Yeames and Chekhov were born within 15 years of each other in the obscure Russian town of Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. Vandals desecrated several synagogues and Jewish community centers during the reporting period, including in Saratov, Lipetsk, Borovichy, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Taganrog, Samara, Petrozavodsk, Perovo, Baltiisk, Kurgan, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Tomsk, and Kaliningrad. For the large size of the unexplained component of the wage gap, the results relative to Belarus are close to those found in Katz (1997) for the Russian medium sized city of Taganrog in the early 1980s and early 1990s. |
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