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In a message dated 95-06-28 16:29:18 EDT, you write:
 
> I have a patron who wants to know if the city or oblast of
>Magadan existed BEFORE 1917 (the Russian Revolution).  It is located
>in Siberia west of the Kamchatka peninsula.  Could someone check some
>old world or Russian atlases for me?
 
A couple of towns on Tausk Bay (also known as Tauiskaya Bay): Tausk and Arman
are very close to the present location of Magadan on my 1889 Encyclopedia
Britannica map.
 
The oblast, according to Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, was formed in
1953.
 
Art Lassagne
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