Bakhmut, a town of Southern Russia, in the government of Ekaterinoslav, on a tributary of the Donetz. In the town are large works for melting tallow and wax, and near by are valuable coal-mines and alabaster quarries. Pop. 16,320.
Bakhmut
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 668
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