Kamyshin

Kamyshin
/keuh mish"euhn/; Russ. /ku mi"shin/, n.
a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Volgograd, on the Volga River. 112,000.

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also spelled  Kamyšin 

      city, Volgograd oblast (region), western Russia. The city lies along the Volga River and the Volgograd reservoir. In 1697 Peter I the Great built a fort, Petrovsk, to protect workmen attempting to construct a canal between the Volga and Don rivers. Renamed Dmitriyevsk in 1710 and Kamyshin in 1780, it became the centre of an agricultural region and a transshipment point; it was linked by rail to Tambov in 1895. Modern Kamyshin also has engineering and other industries. Pop. (2006 est.) 121,829.

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