Kiselevsk

Ki·se·levsk

[ki-sel-yawfsk; Russian kyi-syi-lyawfsk]
noun
a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia.
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kiselevsk

city, Kemerovo oblast (province), central Russia. It developed in the 1930s as an industrial and coal-mining centre. Much of the coal is used for coking. Kiselyovsk's engineering industries produce drilling equipment and trucks and mechanical horses for underground coal trains. Pop. (1991 est.) 126,900

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