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Oka

Navigable river in the western Russian Federation, a major tributary of the Volga; length 1,500 km/932 mi. The Oka rises in the central Russian upland near Orel and flows northeast to join the Volga at Nizhniy-Novgorod. The main ports on its course are Kaluga, Ryazan, Dzerzhinsk, and Nizhniy-Novgorod.
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Lanskoy informed the commander in chief that the army supplies were for the most part stored along the Oka in the Tula and Ryazan provinces, and that if they retreated on Nizhni the army would be separated from its supplies by the broad river Oka, which cannot be crossed early in winter.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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