The New Student's Reference Work/Niemen

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Niemen (nē′ men), a river in western Russia, rises a few miles south of the city of Minsk, divides into two branches below Tilsit, and empties into Kurisches Haff by four mouths to each branch.  It is 500 miles long and navigable as far as Grodno.