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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 956 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KUZNETSK , two towns of See also:

Russia. (1) A See also:

TOWN

town in the See also:

GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

SARATOV

Saratov, 74 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail See also:

east of See also:

PENZA

Penza. It has grown rapidly since the development of the railway See also:

SYSTEM

system in the See also:

VOLGA (known to the Tatars as Etil, Jill or Atel; to the Finnish tribes as Rau, and to the ancients as Rha and Oarus)

Volga See also:

basin. It has manufactures of agricultural machinery and hard-See also:

WARE

ware, in a number cf small factories and workshops, besides tanneries, rope-See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

BOOT

boot and See also:

SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe making in houses, and there is considerable See also:

trade in sheepskins, See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

salt and wooden goods exported to the treeless regions of See also:

south-east Russia. Pop. (1897), 211740. (2) A town in See also:

West See also:

SIBERIA

Siberia, in the government of See also:

TOMSK

Tomsk, 150 M. E.N.E. of See also:

BARNAUL

Barnaul, on the Upper Tom See also:

RIVER

river, at the See also:

head of See also:

NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation. It has trade in grain, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, furs, cedarwood, nuts, See also:

WAX

wax, See also:

HONEY (Chin. me ; Sansk. madhu, mead, honey; cf. A.S. medo, medu, mead; Gr. p Xt, in which 0 or b is changed into X; Lat. mel ; Fr. miel ; A.S. hung ; Ger. Honig)

honey and See also:

TALLOW (M.E. talugh, talg, cf. Du. talk, L. Ger. talg ; the connexion with O.E. taelg, dye, or Goth, tulgus, firm, is doubtful)

tallow, and is the centre of a See also:

COAL

coal-See also:

MINING

mining See also:

DISTRICT

district. Pop. (1897), 3141.

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