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Orel

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Orel , city (1990 pop. 337,000), capital of Orel region, central European Russia, on the Oka River. It is a large railroad junction, an agricultural trade center, and an industrial city producing machinery and clothing. Like Moscow, its main streets are rings and radii moving outward from a central core. It was founded in 1564 by Ivan IV as a fortified settlement to protect the southern border of Muscovy from Crimean Tatar attacks. In the 18th and 19th cent. it was a large trade center. Orel was (1919) the northernmost point reached by Denikin's White Army in the Russian civil war. The city was... Read more
Orel salient
Orel salient. In March 1943, during the German–Soviet war...the Soviet–German front. One, on the north around Orel, was in German hands. The other, around Kursk , was Soviet-he...encirclement and deployed General Walter Model's Ninth Army south of Orel as the northern striking force. Stalin's ... Read more
Orel, Alfred
Orel, Alfred ( b Vienna, 1889; d Vienna, 1967). Austrian musicologist. Librarian, music div., Austrian Nat. Library 1918–40 and... Read more

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