Kremenchug, a town of Russia on the Dnieper, 74 miles by rail SW. of Pultowa. From 1765 to 1789 it was the chief town of New Russia; it is now the seat of great industrial activity, especially in wool, timber, and tobacco, and of factories for agricultural machines, leather, tobacco, candles, &c. Pop. (1871) 30,472; (1897) 57,879.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 458
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