ZYRYAN

city, eastern Kazakstan, on the Beryozovka River in the southern Altai Mountains. Zyryan is an important centre of the lead- and zinc-mining industry, which first came into being when rich deposits of polymetallic ores were discovered there in 1794 by the exile Gerasim Zyryanov. The city is linked by rail to skemen. Pop. (1991 est.) 53,800.