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Description: An illustration to a chapter about Russian naval activities on the Aral Sea and the Syr Darya in the 1850s. Original caption: "Russian steam-barges, originally stationed at Fort No. 7, opposite Kungrad on the Syr-Darya". The author may have made a mistake, because today's Kungrad is on the Amu-Darya, not Syr-Darya; possibly, another town (or river arm?) with similar name was meant.
Title: Michell-Russian-steam-barges-Kungrad
Credit: The Russians in Central Asia : their occupation of the Kirghiz steppe and the line of the Syr-Daria : their political relations with Khiva, Bokhara, and Kokan : also descriptions of Chinese Turkestan and Dzungaria; by Capt. Valikhanof, M. Veniukof and [others] (1865) http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023159621#page/n353/mode/1up
Author: An apparently unnamed Russian officer or civilian traveler, possibly M. Veniukof
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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