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Maina

 

an urban-type settlement in Beia Raion, Khakass Autonomous Oblast, Krasnoiarsk Krai, RSFSR, on the left bank of the Enisei. Railroad station 98 km south of Abakan; population, 13,700 (1970). It serves as the base for the Saian-Shushenskoe Hydroelectric Power Plant, whose construction was begun in 1976 and whose location is 25 km from the settlement.

Maina

 

an urban-type settlement in Maina Raion, Ul’ianovsk Oblast, RSFSR. Railroad station on the Ul’ianovsk-Ruzaevka line, 58 km southwest of Ul’ianovsk. It has a creamery, a lumber combine, and a leather-haberdashery factory.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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