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Dubrovka

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Dubrovka 

an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of Dubrovka Raion, Briansk Oblast, RSFSR. Dubrovka has a railroad station 81 km northwest of Briansk, and it is the site of an alcohol plant, a creamery, and twine, furniture, and clothing factories.


Dubrovka 

an urban-type settlement in Belaia Kholunitsa Raion, Kirov Oblast, RSFSR. Situated on the left bank of the Viatka River, 118 km northeast of the Slobodskoe railroad station. It is a center of large-scale timber (logging) enterprises and has production sections for the floating of logs.


Dubrovka 

(Nevskaia Dubrovka), an urban-type settlement in Leningrad Oblast, RSFSR. A landing on the Neva River, it has a railroad station (Nevskaia Dubrovka). Dubrovka has a woodworking combine and produces sawn timber, prefabricated houses, furniture, and wood-chip and wood-fiber slabs. During the Battle of Leningrad of 1941-44, fierce fighting took place in the Dubrovka region in 1942-43.



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He asked the cabinet to remember the "most difficult tragedies: Beslan and the terror act at Dubrovka," referring to the October 2002 siege of the Moscow-based Dubrovka theatre by Chechen rebels in which 130 people died.
The public stands along the walls, while a performer sits backwards and blindfolded on a chair--in the same position in which one of the Chechen terrorists, asphyxiated by gas, was found after taking the audience hostage in the Dubrovka theater in Moscow in 2002.
The 2002 Dubrovka and Beslan hostage crises: A critique of Russian counter-terrorism.
 
 
 
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