atyrau

Atyrau Bridge. login ap2sg The wooden fort at the mouth of the Yaik River was founded in 1645 as Nizhny Yaitzky Gorodok (literally, Lower Yaik Fort) by the Russian trader Gury Nazarov. login ap2sg The fort was plundered by Cossacks, leading the Guriev family to rebuild it in stone (1647–62) The fort gradually lost its strategic significance and was demolished in