a Russian town of Siberia, on the river Soswa, 18 miles from its confluence with the Obi. It contains three churches and a chapel. Its northern situation forbids all kind of agricultural industry: the inhabitants subsist by hunting and fishing; and the furs which they procure are exchanged with the Russian merchants for such articles as they require. They also supply Tobolsk and other places on the Irtisch with dried fish in summer, and with frozen fish during winter. The inhabitants are chiefly Cossacks, and are much addicted to drinking. This town has afforded a place of exile to several distinguished statesmen. Bezerov is 400 miles N.N.W. of Tobolsk. Lat. 63. 30. N. Long. 65. 55. E.

BEREOVSKOI, a town and fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Orenburg, on the river Oural. In the vicinity are several productive gold mines.