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ELISAVETPOL, a government of Russia, Transcaucasia, having the governments of Tiflis and Daghestan on the N., Baku on the E., and Erivan and Tiflis on the W. and Persia on the S. Area, 16,721 sq. m.

Thus, at Shusha, on the plateau, at an altitude of 3680 ft., the average temperatures are: year 48�, January 26�, July 66�; annual rainfall, 26.4; while at Elisavetpol, in the valley of the Kura, they are: year 55�, January 32�.2, July 77� and rainfall only 10.3 in.

In 1897 there were 970,656 Armenians in Russia, of whom 827,634 were in the provinces of Erivan, Elisavetpol and Tiflis.

They correspond roughly with the governments of Kutais, Tiflis, Elisavetpol and Baku, and have a population of nearly 3,650,000.

So far the principal developments of the industry have been in the governments of Kutais, Batum, Elisavetpol and Kuba�.