Kuznetsk
Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Distinguish Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality
Kuznetsk (Template:Lang-rus) is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located in the foothills of the Volga Upland, mainly on the left bank of the Template:Ill. Population: Template:Ru-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.<ref name="Ref129">Law #774-ZPO</ref> 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.<ref name="Ref129" /> As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.<ref name="Ref282">Law #690-ZPO</ref>
History
Template:Expand Russian Template:Ill founded the settlement of Truyovo on the river Template:Ill 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.<ref>https://en.mapofmemory.org/58-04</ref>
Twin towns and sister cities
Template:See also Kuznetsk is twinned with:
- Template:Flagicon Gyula, Hungary (1970)
- Template:Flagicon Dimitrovgrad, Russia (1972)