Irbit, a town of the Russian government of Perm, 1170 miles nearly due E. of St Petersburg. Its celebrated fair, held in February, is, next to that of Nijni-Novgorod, the most important in the empire. Pop. 4212.
Irbit
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 198
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