SYSTYLE. See ARCHITECTURE, Glossary to.
SYZRAN, a town of European Russia, government and 78 miles S. of Simbirsk, on a hill at the confluence of the Syzran with the Volga. It is meanly built, and has unpaved streets. There are here ten churches, two of which are of wood; a monastery; an important cattle market; manufactures of soap and leather, and an active trade. Pop. 15,400.