The story
- Ukrainian · borrowed fromКузнецо́вськ
- English todayKuznetsovsk
From Ukrainian Кузнецо́вськ (Kuznecóvsʹk), after Soviet intelligence agent Nikolai Kuznetsov + -ськ (-sʹk). Compare Russian Кузнецо́вск (Kuznecóvsk).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.