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 in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin. The city is located 3,482 kilometres east of Moscow at the confluence of the Iskitim and Tom Rivers. It is an important industrial city developed during Soviet times with important chemical, fertiliser, and manufacturing industries and is linked to western Russia by a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Kemerovo's position gives it a continental climate.