KURGAN

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 951 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KURGAN , a town (founded 1553) of West

Siberia

SIBERIA

, in the government of

Tobolsk

TOBOLSK

, on the Siberian railway, 16o m. E. of Chelyabinsk, and on the left bank of the Tobol, in a wealthy agricultural

district

DISTRICT

. Pop. (1897), 10,579. Owing to its position at the terminus of steam navigation up the river Tobol, it has become second only to Tyumen as a commercial centre. It has a public library and a botanic

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

. There is a large

trade

in cattle with Petropavlovsk, and considerable export of

grain

GRAIN (derived through the
French
from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

, tallow,

meat

MEAT

, hides, butter, game and

fish

, there being three large fairs in the year. In the vicinity are a

great

GREAT

number of prehistoric kurgans or burial-mounds.

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