Kuznetsk


Kuznetsk is a types of [inhabited localities in Russia|town] in Penza Oblast, Russia, located in the foothills of the Volga Upland, mainly on the left bank of the. Population:

Administrative and municipal status

Within Russia's framework of administrative divisions, Kuznetsk serves as the administrative center of Kuznetsky District, even though it does not form a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the city of [federal subject significance|town of oblast significance] of Kuznetsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the administrative [divisions of Penza Oblast|districts]. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.

History

founded the settlement of Truyovo on the river in 1699. It became known as Truyovo-Voskresenskoe and then as Naryshkino. An ukaz of Catherine II renamed the village Kuznetsk in November 1780.
During the Soviet era the Duvanny Ravine was used as a place of execution and burial between 1918 and the 1930s. In 1997 a commemorative wooden cross was erected there.

Twin towns and sister cities

Kuznetsk is twinned with: