Komsomolsk (redirected from Komsomol'sk)

Komsomolsk (kəmsəmôlsk`) or Komsomolsk-on-Amur (–ämr`), Rus. Komsomolsk-na-Amure, city (1989 pop. 315,000), Khabarovsk Territory, S Russian Far East, on the Amur River. It is a manufacturing center producing steel, machinery, refined oil, and wood products. Tin mines are nearby. The city was founded (1932) by the Komsomol (the Communist youth organization) with a great loss of life.

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Komsomolsk

an industrial city in W Russia, on the Amur River: built by members of the Komsomol (Communist youth league) in 1932. Pop.: 275 000 (2005 est.)

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Komsomol’sk 

a city, center of Komsomol’sk Raion, Ivanovo Oblast, RSFSR. Located 32 km west of Ivanovo, with which it is linked by a railroad branch-line. Komsomol’sk arose in 1931 during the construction of the Ivanovo State Regional Power Plant, which runs on peat. A city since 1950, it has a plant for the production of electrical crane equipment, a spinning mill, and a dairy. Komsomol’sk also has a polytechnic technicum.

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Komsomol’sk 

an urban-type settlement in Tisul’ Raion, Kemerovo Oblast, RSFSR; situated in the foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau, 68 km south of the railroad station of Tiazhin on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Gold is mined there.

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Komsomol’sk 

a city (since 1972) in Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR; located on the Dnieper River, 20 km from the railroad station of Potoki (on the Kremenchug-Poltava line). Population, 21,200 (1972). Komsomol’sk has a concentrating combine, enterprises of the food and other industries, and a mining technicum. [12–1796–2; updated]

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Komsomol’sk 

an urban-type settlement in Pervomaiskoe Raion, Tomsk Oblast, RSFSR; located on the right bank of the Chulym River (Ob’ basin), 2 km from the Chertany railroad station on the Asino-Belyi lar line. A logging and timber distribution establishment is located there.

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Komsomol’sk 

an urban-type settlement in the Chardzhou Oblast, Turkmen SSR. Situated on the left bank of the Amu Darya, on the Chardzhou-Kerki highway, 8 km south of Chardzhou. Population, 20,400 (1972). Komsomol’sk has a superphosphate plant, a combine for the production of construction components, and a house-building combine. It also has a heat and power plant. A branch of the Ashkhabad Polytechnic Technicum is located in the settlement.