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Show T ARCHANGEL j . Archangel, the capital city of the Uus-sian Uus-sian government of Archangel, Is sUu-aled sUu-aled on the light hank of the Dvina river, twenty-arc miles above its entrance into the White sea and 740 miles northeast of Petrograd. - It is the largest and most iitipoi hint city in the world situated so close to the Arctic sea. The city is of ancient origin and among its noteworthy buildings is the handsome cathedral fin- " Isliej in toe beginning of the nineteenth j century, if. is said to be the handsomest' and best lighted cathedral ' In Russia." Other buildings of note are this bazaar or mart, the marine hospital and the wooden "little house" of Peter the Great. The Importance of the city is great, since It serves as an outiet for the "products "prod-ucts of the fur northern and western part J of Siberia. The chief articles of traffic I are fish, skins, furs, timber, wax, iron. I tallow, biistles and caviar. At its annual 1 fail', held always in September, more than J 37.00O.0OO worth of goods exchange hands. The value of its exports amount to about , $4,300,000 annually, and It is visited by snme S00 vessels from July to ffepteniher, i the only period of the year when the liar- I bor Of Archangel Is entirely free from f ice. Of the foreign vessels which habitu- j allv visited the port before the war the 1 British and N onwesian were the most j numerous. Considerable Inland shipping! is carried up by a large number of small- j er vessels operating on the Dvina river. The site nf the city was first visited by I an -English expedition under rhaneHlov ! hi Kr in search of a northwest passage to Inula. Soon afterward an Knglish rac-torv rac-torv wa erected and the town wns established estab-lished in l.'iS i. whn a fort was built. A few veai s ago the population of the city was sr.,-1K, or- approximately that of! Ogden. f'tah. 1 The territory rf Archangel contains j njK.O'io s.'iare nviloF exclusive of huge inland in-land waters. It is the largest government of 1 1re nuian empire and occupies the entire north, of European Russia. The i population, however, of this great tract j o- laud, which is almost as large aa the, "ori'lne-l ar";!;- of I'tah. Idaho. Colorado! and Wyoming, was b':t ! (9.-100 in 19'i. or a population "about comparable to that of! Ctah. Ninety-eight pftr cent of the peo-J pv arc r;f'if K'liaus. |