The New International Encyclopædia/Alexandrovsk

ALEXANDROVSK, ä′lĕks-än′dr𝑜fsk. A fortified town in the south of Russia, in the government of Ekaterinoslav, on the left bank of the Dnieper, below the cataracts, 56 miles south of Ekaterinoslav (Map: Russia, E 5). Inland productions are shipped here for the Black Sea, and it is known for its large storage houses and other storing facilities, but it has no considerable trade of its own. In its vicinity there are many hillocks, or mounds, which are in all probability the graves of the great chiefs of the ancient Scythians. Opposite the town is the Khortista Island, the chief seat of the famous Dnieper Cossacks in the seventeenth century. Pop., 1885, 6700; 1897, 16,393.