Rudnyi

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Rudnyi

 

a city under oblast jurisdiction in Kustanai Oblast, Kazakh SSR. Located on the left bank of the Tobol River of the Ob’ River basin. Railroad station (Zhelezorudnaia) 50 km southwest of Kustanai. Population, 107,000 (1975; 33,000 in 1959). Rudnyi arose in 1957 in connection with iron-ore mining and the construction of the Sokolovka-Sarbai Ore-concentration Combine. It has food-industry enterprises. It also has a branch of the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute, an industrial technicum, and music and pedagogical schools.


Rudnyi

 

an urban-type settlement in Kavalerovo Raion, Primor’e Krai, RSFSR. Located on the upper Zerkal’naia River, which empties into the Sea of Japan, 124 km east of the Novochuguevka railroad station. Rudnyi has an ore-concentration plant and a mine of the Khrustal’nyi Ore-dressing Combine (tin ores).

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