Mariinsk is a town in Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast , also known as Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia , located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Kiya River

Kiya River

Kiya is a river in Tomsk and Kemerovo Oblasts of Russia. It is a tributary of the Chulym , and is 548 km long, with a drainage basin of 32 200 km²...

 (Ob

Ob River

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's basin

Drainage basin

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) 180 kilometres (111.8 mi) northeast of Kemerovo

Kemerovo

Kemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...

. Population: 39,700 (1972).

It was founded in the 18th century as the village of Kiyskoye . In 1856, it was granted town status and renamed Mariinsk after Empress Maria, consort of Alexander II

Alexander II of Russia

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, one year later. Mariinsk stands at the intersection of the Kiya River and Trans-Siberian Railway

Trans-Siberian Railway

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