KUZNETSK  , two towns of

Russia . (1) A town in the government of Saratov, 74 M. by rail east of Penza . It has grown rapidly since the development of the railway system in the Volga basin . It has manufactures of agricultural machinery and hard-ware, in a number cf small factories and workshops, besides tanneries, rope-works, boot and shoe making in houses, and there is considerable trade in sheepskins, grain, salt and wooden goods exported to the treeless regions of south-east Russia . Pop . (1897), 211740 . (2) A town in West Siberia, in the government of Tomsk, 150 M . E.N.E. of Barnaul, on the Upper Tom river, at the head of navigation . It has trade in grain, cattle, furs, cedarwood, nuts, wax, honey and tallow, and is the centre of a coal-mining district . Pop . (1897), 3141 .