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   Turning    W     in    Tashir,    a  sadly deteriorated asphalt road leads past the villages of Blagodarnoye (a Russian settlement once known as Kirilovka).

   S   of    Blagodarnoye   is   Katnarat (founded in 1923 as a horse-breeding Sovkhoz).  It then rises into the mountains, crossing a majestic empty upland (closed in winter) of grass and eagles, and eventually descends into Shirak Marz.

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