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Encyclopedia Britannica



KREMENCHUG

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 925 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KREMENCHUG , a town of
south
 -west Russia, in the government of
Poltava
 , on the left bank of the
Dnieper
  (which periodically overflows its banks), 73 M. S.W. of the city of
Poltava
 , on the Kharkov-Nikolayev railway. Pop. (1887), 31,000; (1897, with Kryukov suburb), 58,648. The most notable public buildings are the cathedral (built in 1808), the arsenal and the town-
hall
 . The town is supposed to have been founded in 1571. From its situation at the southern terminus of the navigable course of the
Dnieper
 , and on the highway from Moscow to Odessa, it early acquired
great
  commercial importance, and by 1655 it was a wealthy town. From 1765 to 1789 it was the
capital
  of " New Russia." It has a suburb, Kryukov, on the right bank of the Dnieper, united with the town by a railway bridge. Nearly all commercial transactions in salt with White Russia are effected at Kremenchug. The town is also the centre of the tallow trade with Warsaw; considerable quantities of timber are floated down to this place. Nearly all the trade in the brandy manufactured in the government of Kharkov, and destined for the governments of Ekaterinoslav and
Taurida
 ,is concentrated here, as also is the trade in linseed between the districts situated on the left affluents of the Dnieper and the southern ports. Other articles of commerce are rye, rye-flour, wheat, oats and
buckwheat
 , which are sent partly up the Dnieper to Pinsk, partly by land to Odessa and Berislav, but principally to Ekaterinoslav, on light boats floated down during the
spring
  floods. The Dnieper is crossed at Kremenchug by a tubular bridge r081 yds. long; there is also a bridge of boats. The manufactures consist of carriages, agricultural machinery, tobacco, steam flour-mills, steam saw-mills and forges.


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