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Ishim

 
Dictionary: I·shim   (ĭ-shĭm') pronunciation


A river, about 1,818 km (1,130 mi) long, rising in the steppe region of Kazakhstan and flowing generally northwest then northeast to the Irtysh River in south-central Russia.

 

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Ishim (ēshēm'), city (1989 pop. 66,000), W Siberian Russia, on the Ishim River and the Trans-Siberian RR. An agricultural center, it produces farm machinery and processes food. An old trading town known as Korkinsk, Ishim was renamed in 1782.


 
 
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