BYELGOROD (White Town), a town in the Kursk prov ince of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, on a chalk hill on the right bank of the Donetz river. Lat. 5o° 38' N., Long. 36° 37' E. Pop. (1926) 22,794. It is a railway junction and has a radio station. It is situated near a patch of timber-bearing land and trades in honey, wax, leather, grain and cattle, and has lime and brickworks. It became an archiepiscopal see in 1666, and its two cathedrals and its theological college date from the 16th century. In the I 7th century it was frequently attacked by Tatars, and an earthen wall, with 12 forts, called the Byelgorod line, was built across the Zoom. between the Vorskla river and the Don river.