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"Kiakhta," he said, "or rather, as far as the Russians are concerned,
Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia Walter Paget 1867
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Siberia, -- and to Kiakhta, on the borders of China.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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I was curious to compare the taste of some of the very best qualities of both kinds, and was brought to the conclusion, confirmed by the opinion of gentlemen interested in the sale of sea-faring tea, that, although some of their own is more high-flavoured and stronger, there is in the Kiakhta tea an exquisite delicacy, which will always receive in its favour a higher price.
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China, and comes overland from Kiakhta, the city on the border between the Asiatic-Russian and the Celestial Empire.
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From Perm a railway runs up to the Pass of the Ural mountains to Ekaterinenburg, probably to be in course of time continued to Tiumen, Tobolsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, the Baikal Lake, the Chinese frontier at Kiakhta, the banks of the Amoor, and the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
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Kiakhta, while grain, cedar nuts, salt, soda, wool and timber are shipped on rafts down the Khilok, Chikoi and Uda (tributaries of the Selenga), and manufactured goods are taken up the river for export to China.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Every year 60,000 chests of tea arrive at Maimiatchin and Kiakhta, of the declared official value of £1,185,000 sterling; and to this may be added £38,650 for inferior tea used by the people of the south, which makes the total declared value of the tea introduced about one and a quarter million sterling.
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I was told that when the Government disposed of the Armenians of Kiakhta he was summoned and ordered to produce the records of moneys owing to him
Martyred Armenia F��'iz El-Ghusein
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The quantity forwarded from Kiakhta into the interior consisted of --
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-- Whilst I was Kaimakâm of the district of Kiakhta, in the
Martyred Armenia F��'iz El-Ghusein
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