Vilyuisk (English spelling)

Japanese: ビリュイスク（英語表記）Vilyuisk

A city in the Sakha Republic in eastern Russia. It is a river port city on the Bilyuy River, about 450 km west-northwest of the republic's capital, Yakutsk, and has a food industry. It was founded in 1634 as a winter camp for the Cossacks. During the imperial era, it was used as a place of exile, and NG Chernyshevsky and others were exiled there. It is connected to Yakutsk by highways and waterways. It has a population of about 7,000.

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Japanese:

ロシア東部，サハ共和国の都市。共和国首都ヤクーツクの西北西約 450km，ビリュイ川にのぞむ河港都市で，食品工業がある。 1634年コサックの冬営所がつくられたことに始る。帝政時代に流刑地として利用され，N. G.チェルヌイシェフスキーなどが流された。ヤクーツクとハイウェー，水路で連絡。人口約 7000。

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