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|    Erland Sommarskog to Dan Blum    |
|    Re: RQFTCINO13 Final, Rounds 4,6: geogra    |
|    21 Jan 23 17:54:22    |
      From: esquel@sommarskog.se              Dan Blum (tool@panix.com) writes:       >> 7. Between 1935 and 1991 it was called Kuibyshev or Kuybyshev;       >> it is Russia's """6th-largest""" city and is located on the Volga       >> River in the southeastern part of the European part of Russia.       >> What is the """present""" name of the city?       >       > Kirovgrad              Interesting answer. I had never heard the name before, so I consulted       Google maps. Indeed, there is a city with his name, but it appears to       be relatively unassuming, far away from being the 6th-largest. Incidentally,       though, it is located in the neighbour in one of the other cities in       this (quite difficult) triplet.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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