Zmiev

Zmiev

 

a city and administrative center of Zmiev Raion, Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, at the confluence of the Mzha and Severskii Donets rivers. Railroad station on the Kharkov-Krasnyi Limanline. Population, 16,600(1971). It is the site of machine-building and building-materials plants, as well as a packaging combine, a paper mill, and a dairy. The city was founded in the 17th century.

REFERENCE

Hol’dfarb, L. H., V. M. Selivanov, and K. B. Pravovierova.Zmiiv: Istoryko-kraieznavchyi narys. Kharkov, 1969.