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Transcaspian arkals (O. v. arkal) at Pretoria Zoo. Urial males have large horns, curling outwards from the top of the head turning in to end somewhere behind the head; females have shorter, compressed horns. The horns of the males are up to 100 cm (39 in) long. The shoulder height of an adult male urial is between 80 and 90 cm (31 and 35 in).
The railway permitted a massive increase in the amount of cotton exported from the region. This increased from 873,092 pudy in 1888 to 3,588,025 in 1893. Also sugar, kerosene, wood, iron and construction material were imported into the area.
After the conquest of Turkmenistan they established a Transcaspian Oblast. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 , the British Empire sent the Malleson Mission (1918-1919) to Trans-Caspia. See also
The Transcaspian Oblast, [a] or simply Transcaspia, [b] was an oblast of the Russian Empire and early Soviet Russia to the east of the Caspian Sea during the second half of the 19th century until 1924.
The majority of then-existing oblasts were located on the periphery of the country (e.g. Kars Oblast or Transcaspian Oblast) or covered the areas where Cossacks lived.
The Transcaspian Government (1918 - July 1919) was a "Menshevik-Socialist Revolutionary" [1] coalition set up by the railway workers of the Trans-Caspian Railway in 1918. It was based at Ashgabat , Transcaspian Oblast .
Pages in category "Transcaspian Oblast" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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