Orel

Orel, a town of Russia, stands on the Oka, 222 miles by rail SSW. of Moscow, has manufactures of ropes, tallow, bricks, machinery, and verdigris, and a busy trade in grain, ropes, and tallow. It was burned down in 1848 and again in 1858. Pop. (1897) 69,858.—The government of Orel, an agricultural and busy industrial region, has an area of 18,036 sq. m., and a pop. (1897) of 2,054,749.