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Novokuznetsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia with a population of 549,870 (2002 Census). It is located c. 3,000 km east of Moscow. Founded as a Cossack outpost on the Tom River, it was initially called Kuznetsk . It was here that Fyodor Dostoevsky married his first wife, Maria Isayeva (1857). Joseph Stalin's rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union transformed the sleepy town into a major coal mining and industrial center in the 1930s. In 1931–1932 the city was known as Novokuznetsk and in 1932–1961 as Stalinsk , after Stalin. On March 19 2007 a massive methane explosion ripped through the Ulyanovskaya mine in Novokuznetsk killing over 100 people. The mine was the largest coal producing center in the Kemerovo Region, located in an oil rich area of south central Russia known as the Kuzbass region. It is the deadliest mining accident in recent history. City districts: *Kuybyshevsky *Kuznetsky *Novoilyinsky *Ordzhonikidzevsky *Tsentralny *Zavodsky Education: ... Read more about Novokuznetsk on Wikipedia

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