DMITROVSK, a town of European Russia, in the government of Orel, near the Nerusa, a sub-tributary of the Dnieper, about 57 miles south-west of the town of Orel, in 52° 30' N. lat. and 35° 4' 9" E. long. It consists of about 700 wooden houses, has four churches and a hospital, manufactures soap, and deals in grain, hemp, linseed oil, and tallow. Dmitrovsk was founded by Demetrius Cantemir, the hospodar of Moldavia, who in 1711 received from Peter I. the district in which it stands in compensation for the loss he had sustained in Moldavia; and its first inhabitants consisted of Malo Russian and Wallachian immigrants. Population, 7600.