Uralsk, a Russian town, in Uralsk government, on the right bank of the Ural, 280 miles N. of its mouth in the Caspian Sea. It has for centuries been an important seat of the Cossacks, and carries on a busy trade with them and with the western Kirghiz steppes, besides horse-rearing, fisheries, and the preparation of caviare. Pop. 26,054.
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