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I have not yet explained that when I was just considering leaving Iakutsk, I wrote to Canada to my close friend Pavel V. Planidin, and I asked him whether he had any close acquaintances in Batum who could assist me with going abroad. He, indeed, knew such people and he sent me their first and last names. The next day, we would have to find them. We slept for no more than two hours. At dawn, we got up, and when people started to walk along the city attending to their own business, we also left the tavern and walked ahead.
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Iakutsk (Yakutsk) is a sub-Arctic city in Siberia with a harsh continental climate. During winters, it is one of the coldest cities in the world. It is the homeland of the Yakut (Sakha) people, the indigenous population of the area. It was used by the Russian government as a place of exile. Today it is the capital of Sakha republic.
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Batum (modern name Batumi) is a port city on the Black sea coast. It is the second largest city of the country of Georgia, which at the time of the narrative, was a part of the Russian Empire.
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Transcaucasia is an area in and around the Caucasus mountains (located between the Caspian and the Black Sea). It is comprised mostly of the territories of the modern states of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. At the time of the narrative, it was the territory of the Russian Empire.
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Elizavetpol’ (later Kirovabad, since 1989, Ganja) was the capital of Elizavetpol’ guberniia in the Russian Empire. Since the separation of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union, it is one of the largest cities in Azerbaijan.
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Obdorsk (now Salekhard) is a town in north-western Siberia on the Ob’ river, which was often used as a place of exile in Imperial Russia.
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Verigin, G.V. (2019). A Trip Abroad. In: Makarova, V., Ewashen, L. (eds) The Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers' Immigration to Canada. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18525-1_24
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