NOVOMOSKOVSK  , a

town of Russia, in the government of Ekaterinoslav, 16 m . N.E. of the town of Ekaterinoslay . Including several villages which have been incorporated with it, it extends for nearly 7 M. along the right bank of the Samara, a tributary of the Dnieper . In the 17th century the site was occupied by several villages of Zaporogian Cossacks, known under the name of Samarchik . In 1687 Prince Golitsuin founded here the Ust-Samara fort, which was destroyed after the treaty of the Pruth (1711), but rebuilt in 1736, and the settlement of Novoselitsy established . The inhabitants of Novomoskovsk, who numbered 23,381 in 1900, are chiefly engaged in agriculture, though some are employed in tanneries, and there is a trade in horses, cattle, tallow, skins, tar and pitch . In the immediate neighbourhood is the Samarsko-Nikolayevskiy monastery, which is visited by many pilgrims . NOVO-RADOMSK, or RADOMSKO, a town of Russian Poland, in the government of Piotrkow, 28 m. by rail S.S.W. of the town of Piotrk6w . It has factories for bentwood furniture, woollens and cloth, tanneries, ironworks and sawmills, and is the centre of a very active trade . Pop . (1900) 14,464, many being Jews .