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Orsk was founded (as Orenburg) in 1735 in the process of the Russian colonization of Bashkiria and the Southern Ural region. [9] The first settlement was founded by an expedition headed by Ivan Kirilov as a military fortification at the Mount Preobrazhenskaya on the left bank of the Yaik River (presently Ural River).
Orenburg (Russian: Оренбу́рг, pronounced [ɐrʲɪnˈburk]), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia.It lies in Eastern Europe, along the banks of the Ural River, being approximately 1,480 kilometers (920 mi) southeast of Moscow.
Reverted to version as of 14:56, 18 November 2024 (UTC) This serves as a justification of Russian occupation. This map is used all over dozens of Wiki's. Crimea is not internationally recognized Russian territory. 21:53, 18 November 2024: 1,181 × 1,558 (3.29 MB) NordNordWest
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has evacuated around 2,000 people from their homes in the Russian city of Orsk, Russian officials said on Saturday, a day after rising waters in the Ural river flooded ...
Water from the upper reaches of the Ural River is used to supply the prominent Magnitogorsk (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, built in the early 1930s) and Orsk-Khalilovsk metallurgical plants, and the low reaches are used for irrigation. Two reservoirs were created near Magnitogorsk, and there is a hydroelectric plant near the village of ...
Footage from Orsk showed water covering the streets dotted with one-story houses. Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia's border with Kazakhstan ...
The failure of the Orsk Dam caused over 1 billion rubles in damage, and 10,000 homes were flooded. Over 4,000 people were evacuated from the area. The Russian government declared a federal emergency. [3] [18] There were also reports of 15 schools being flooded and three children and six adults being injured, but not severely. [18]
Orsk, a city of 230,000, lies near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev described the flooding as one of Kazakhstan’s largest natural disasters in 80 years ...