Balkashino
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Balkashino
an urban-type settlement and administrative center of Balkashino Raion, Tselinograd Oblast, Kazakh SSR. It is located on the Zhabai River (a tributary of the Ishim) and on a motor road, 85 km north of the Atbasar railroad station. Population in 1968, 7,300. Balkashino has a creamery and a building-materials combine.
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