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Kemerovo

Kemerovo , city (1989 pop. 520,000), capital of Kemerovo region, central Siberian Russia, on the Tom River and on a branch of the Trans-Siberian RR. It is a coal-mining center of the Kuznetsk Basin, with important chemical and synthetic fiber industries. It was named Shcheglovsk from 1925 to 1932.

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Kemerovo, Russia Shcheglovsk A province and a city founded in the 1830s. In 1918 the village of Kemerovo united with the village of Shcheglovo to form the city of Shcheglovsk. This name remained in use until 1932 when Kemerovo was readopted. This comes from the Turkish kemer ‘fort’.

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