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Kurgan (Russian: Курган, IPA:) is the largest city and the administrative center of Kurgan Oblast in the south of the Urals Federal District of Russia. Population: 310,911 ( 2021 Census ) ; [ 8 ] 333,606 ( 2010 Census ) ; [ 4 ] 345,515 ( 2002 Census ) ; [ 9 ] 355,517 ( 1989 Soviet census ) .
Kurgan Oblast is located in Southern Russia and is part of the Urals Federal District. It shares borders with Chelyabinsk Oblast to the west, Sverdlovsk Oblast to the north-west, Tyumen Oblast to the north-east, and Kazakhstan ( Kostanay and North Kazakhstan Region ) to the south.
Kurgan, city and administrative centre of Kurgan oblast (region), west-central Russia, on the Tobol River. In 1553 the fortified settlement of Tsaryovo Gorodishche was founded on a large ancient tumulus or artificial mound (Russian kurgan); it became a town in 1782, and by the late 19th century it.
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Kurgan, oblast (region), west-central Russia, on the southern edge of the West Siberian Plain, in the Tobol Basin. It is a level plain with innumerable small lakes, often saline, in shallow depressions. The steppe-grass vegetation has been largely ploughed up, and many shelter belts of trees have.
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A kurgan is a type of tumulus constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons, and horses. Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western, and Northern Europe during the third millennium BC. [1]
Kurgan is a city in Russia located almost in the center of Eurasia, about 2,060 km east of Moscow, the administrative center of Kurgan Oblast. It is one of the most important economic, scientific, and cultural centers of the Ural Federal District, a major transport hub.
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Kurgan Oblast is a federal subject of Russia on the border between the Ural mountains and Siberia. It has a continental climate, fertile soil, diverse fauna, and rich cultural and historical heritage.
