Kuznetsk (russian: Кузне́цк) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Penza Oblast
Penza Oblast (russian: Пе́нзенская о́бласть, ''Penzenskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Penza. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,386,186.
Geogr ...
,
Russia
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, located in the foothills of the
Volga Upland
The Volga Upland, also known as the Volga Uplands, Volga Hills, or Volga Plateau, (Russian: Приволжская возвышенность - Privolzhskaya vozvyshennost) is a vast region of the East European Plain in the European part of Russ ...
, mainly on the left bank of the
Truyov River. Population:
Administrative and municipal status
Within Russia's
framework of administrative divisions, Kuznetsk serves as the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
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of
Kuznetsky District Kuznetsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia.
Districts of the federal subjects
* Kuznetsky District, Penza Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Penza OblastLaw #774-ZPO
City divisions ...
, even though it does not form a part of it.
[Law #774-ZPO] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the
town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the
districts
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.
As a
municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.
[Law #690-ZPO]
History
founded the settlement of Truyovo on the river in 1699. It became known as Truyovo-Voskresenskoe and then as Naryshkino. An
ukaz
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of
Catherine II
, en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes
, house =
, father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
, mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp
, birth_date =
, birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anha ...
renamed the village as ''Kuznetsk'' in November 1780.
Twin towns and sister cities
Kuznetsk is
twinned with:
*
Gyula,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
(1970)
*
Dimitrovgrad, Russia (1972)
References
Notes
Sources
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Cities and towns in Penza Oblast
Kuznetsky Uyezd (Saratov Governorate)
Populated places established in 1618
1618 establishments in Russia