or KISCHENAW, a town of European Russia, capital of Bessarabia, on the Byk, a tributary of the Dniester, 49 miles N.W. of Odessa. It has been greatly improved and enlarged since it came into the possession of Russia (1812), and contains numerous churches and schools, an ecclesiastical college, library, gardens, fountains, &c. The trade, chiefly in agricultural produce and manufactures (woolens, leather, candles, soap, &c.), is considerable. Pop. (1849) 42,613, consisting of Russians, Turks, Jews, Greeks, Armenians, &c.