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Chagan

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Chagan 

an urban-type settlement in Semipalatinsk Oblast, Kazakh SSR. Chagan is under the jurisdiction of the Semipalatinsk City Soviet. It has a railroad station 80 km northwest of Semipalatinsk. Industrial enterprises include a keramzit shop and a branch of the fur factory of the Semipalatinsk Leather and Fur Association.


Chagan 

a river in Orenburg Oblast, RSFSR, and Ural’sk Oblast, Kazakh SSR; a right tributary of the Ural. The Chagan measures 264 km in length and drains an area of 7,530 sq km. It originates on the Obshchii Syrt Upland. The river is fed mainly by-snow.

The mean flow rate 40 km from the mouth is 7.7 cu m per sec. The Chagan usually freezes in November but sometimes as late as early January, and in the upper course it freezes through. The ice breaks up in late March or April.



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Last week Jamir met the caretaker chief minister Ashok Chavan and the NCP's Chagan Bhujbal and later in an unprecedented act of constitutional impropriety issued an appeal "to both the NCP and the Congress to respect the opinion of the people and form a government as soon as possible".
Sources added that swearing in ceremony of Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, Deputy Chief Minister Chagan Bhujbal and a team of ministers is likely to tale place in a day or two.
The Silk Road began in the ancient Chinese capital of Chagan (modern-day Xian), west of the great bend in the Yellow River where it flows into the North China plain, with the termini of its two main westward branches in Antioch and Byzantium (Constantinople).
 
 
 
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