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Atyrau
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A·ty·rau or A·ti·rau  (ät-rou) Formerly Gu·ryev (gryf)
A city of western Kazakhstan at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea. Founded in 1645 as a military outpost, it was a fishing port until the development of the region's petroleum resources in the 1930s. Population: 145,000.


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