Riazan, a town of Russia and capital of a government, stands near the right bank of the Oka, 115 miles by rail SE. of Moscow. A straggling, ill-built town of wooden houses, it sends wheat to Moscow. Pop. 30,327.
Riazan,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 698
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