- a city in W Russia, on the Tobol River: industrial centre for an agricultural region. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
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kur•gan
(kŏŏr gän′, -gan′),USA pronunciation n.
Kur•gan (kŏŏr gän′; Russ. ko̅o̅r gän′),USA pronunciation n.
- Archaeologya circular burial mound constructed over a pit grave and often containing grave vessels, weapons, and the bodies of horses as well as a single human body;
originally in use in the Russian Steppes but later spreading into eastern, central, and northern Europe in the third millennium b.c.
- Turkic; compare Turkish, Tatar kurğan, Chagatai, Kazakh korğan fortress, castle
- Russian kurgán burial mound, Old Russian, apparently to be identified with kurganù fortress
- 1885–90
Kur•gan (kŏŏr gän′; Russ. ko̅o̅r gän′),USA pronunciation n.
- Place Namesa city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains. 310,000.
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