Alexandrovsk, a small Russian town in the government of Ekaterinoslav, Russia, on the left bank of the Dnieper, 202 miles N. of Simferopol by rail. Pop. (1897) 7835.—Also, a Russian settlement in East Siberia, founded in 1815, opposite the island of Sakhalin, with a good harbour.
Alexandrovsk
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