[noh-vuh-mos-kawfsk, -kofsk; Russ. nuh-vuh-muh-skawfsk] 
| a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow. 147,000. |
Novomoskovsk
city, Tula oblast (province), western Russia, situated on the upper Don River. Founded in 1930 as Bobriki, the town developed as a major chemical centre, making fertilizers and plastics and mining lignite (brown coal). Pop. (1993 est.) 145,000.
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