Abakan

For the simple fact of their religious beliefs — protected by the Russian Constitution in word but not in deed — armed law enforcement officers raided their home in Abakan in 2019 and confiscated Bibles, electronic devices and personal records.

A helicopter sent to find a safe spot to land a party of geologists was skimming the treeline a hundred or so miles from the Mongolian border when it dropped into the thickly wooded valley of an unnamed tributary of the Abakan, a seething ribbon of water rushing through dangerous terrain.

A railway bridge that collapsed near the city of Abakan in the Russian Republic of Khakassia.

Abakan or Abachan ought to be written Alahan.

Behind Balir in the lands of the Lama Jassaktu Khan, who had inherited his throne as a result of the poisoning of his brother at Urga by order of the Living Buddha, we met wandering Russian Tartars who had driven their herds all the way from Altai and Abakan.