KRIVOI ROG, a town in the Ukrainian S.S.R., in 47° 51' N., 32° 20' E., in a district of the same name, on the Ingulets river, a tributary of the Dnieper. Pop. (1926) 30,963. The district is rich in mineral ores obtained from a narrow stretch of crystalline schists underlying the Tertiary deposits. Its iron ore contains on an average 62 to 67% iron, 9% silica and .03 to .o6% phosphorus. In 1913 the output of the Krivoi Rog mines was more than six and a half million tons, but during 1919 and 1920 the mines were unworked. Since their re-starting in 1921-22 progress has been steady, and the 1926-27 output was 3,818,765 tons; most of it is forwarded to the southern smelting factories. Copper ore, colours, brown coal, graphite, slate and lithographic stone are also obtained. The town has iron foundries and chemical works.
tinian monastery in 1845. As professor in the divinity school of this foundation he began to collect and arrange folk songs for male choirs, and eventually became director of church music to the community. These songs passed into the repertory of choirs throughout Bohemia and helped to develop the national school of music. died at Brno.