Kuznetsk () is a 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.Law #774-ZPO 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.Law #690-ZPO
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.https://en.mapofmemory.org/58-04
Twin towns and sister cities
Kuznetsk is twinned with: Gyula, Hungary (1970) Dimitrovgrad, Russia (1972)
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