ACHINSK. ) A province in the Siberian area of the R.S.F.S.R. Area 65,2o4sq.km. Pop. (19 2 6) 39 2,000 ; urban 24,997; rural 367,003. It consists of pine, spruce and birch forest, with open grassy areas on which rye and wheat are grown by the peasants and immigrant colonists. The winter is severe and oc casionally early frosts ruin the crops. Gold is found to the west of the town of Achinsk. (2) A market centre, lat. 56° 3o' N., long. 90° 35' E., on the Chulym river, which links it with the Ob river. It is on the Trans-Siberian railway and has a branch to the rich Minusinsk district.