Zyryan

Zyryan
/zear"yeuhn, -yahn/, n., pl. Zyryans, (esp. collectively) Zyryan.
Komi.
Also, Zyryenian /zear yen"ee euhn/.
[1885-90; < Russ zyryánin (pl. zyryáne), ORuss syryanin, seryanin, perh. akin to Mansi saran a Komi]

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      city, eastern Kazakhstan, on the Beryozovka River in the southern Altai Mountains. Zyryan is an important centre of the lead- and zinc-mining industry, which first came into being when rich deposits of polymetallic ores were discovered there in 1794 by the exile Gerasim Zyryanov. The city is linked by rail to Öskemen. Pop. (1991 est.) 53,800.

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