Plague
hill "Chumka"
Vodoprovodnaya Street (Водопроводная)
(South of the train station, just north of the rail
road bridge, about 27 Vodoprovodnaya (Водопроводная)
Street)
In 1812
a plague from the Middle East struck more than 4,000
people, about one fifth of the population. The dead
were buried on a hill called "Chumka" (Чумка)
Chuma means "plague" in Russian. Today this
it is a nondescript embankment with no memorial.
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