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Veliky Ustyug
Veliky Ustyug is a town in Vologda Oblast in northern Russia, at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug rivers, first mentioned in the chronicles in 1207. A frontier outpost of Rostov and Vladimir-Suzdal on the route to the northern fur lands, it was captured by the Volga Bulgars around 1218. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century it was a major trading town on the route between Arkhangelsk and Siberia.
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