Kuznetsk Depression
Kuznetsk Depression (Russian: Кузнецкая котловина) is located among mountains of South-Central Siberia, including: Kuznetsk Alatau to the Northeast, Salair Ridge to the Southwest, and Mountainous Shoria to the South. It is within Kemerovo Oblast.
Geography
The depression has elevations up to 500 metres (1,600 ft),. It has an area of 70,000 km², with a length of 400 kilometres (250 mi) and width of 120 kilometres (75 mi).
It is split by a network of river valleys. The major rivers are the Tom River and Inya River, with other tributaries of Ob River.
The central section has several Mesozoic basalt mountain ridges with heights of 600–740 metres (1,970–2,430 ft). They include Taradanov's Ridge, Saltymakov's Ridge, and the Karakan Mountains.
Economy
The Kuznetsk Depression contains the famous coal-mining Kuznetsk Basin. The main cities in it are Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, and Prokopyevsk.
See also
Kuznetsk
Kuznetsk (Russian: Кузне́цк) is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located in the foothills of the Volga Upland, mainly on the left bank of the Truyov River. Population: 88,839 (2010 Census); 92,050 (2002 Census); 98,588 (1989 Census).
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 town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.
History
Vasiliy Fedorovich Naryshkin founded the settlement of Truyovo on the river Tryov in 1699. It became known as Truyovo-Voskresenskoe and then as Naryshkino. An ukaz of Catherine II renamed the village as Kuznetsk in November 1780.
Twin towns and sister cities
Kuznetsk is twinned with:
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