BEREZOVO, a town in the Uralsk area of the Russian Social ist Federal Soviet Republic on the left bank of the Sosva river, 26m. above its junction with the Ob river. Lat. 63° 52' N., Long. 64° 54' E. Pop. (19 26) 4,706. Alt. I oof t. Average rainfall per annum 18.4in. Av. temp. Jan. 10.7° F., July 61.3° F. As early as the Cossacks had established a trading post for furs (fox, ermine, squirrel, bear, reindeer, hares and sable) and this trade, except in sable, now goes on, together with dried and salted fish. It was burnt down in 1719 and 1808. It was a place to which political exiles were sent : among them were Prince Menshikov, the fa vourite of Peter the Great and Catherine I., who died here 1729, his enemy Prince Dolgoruki and his family, exiled 173o, and Mary Menshikov, once betrothed to Peter II.