Jizak station, named after a district town in the province of Samarkand, is situated in the valley of the Sanzar river in a locality which is both thickly populated and well cultivated. At the workshops there is only a staff of nine workmen, while the railway depôt possesses little more than engine sheds and a naphtha reservoir of 10,000 poods. The water-supply of the station is drawn from the Sanzar river. Water for the consumption of the Russian quarter of the town, which lies at the foot of the northern slope of the Nura mountains, two versts from the railway, comes from the Russki arik. The district supplied by the station is small and in the year under review there were: _Arrivals._ _Departures._ 6038 5612 Goods traffic reveals a steady demand for articles of Russian manufacture, the combined bulk of this trade being: _Imports._ _Exports._ 136,029 poods 500,142 poods. The export trade was comprised as follows: Wheat 392,854 poods. Wheat flour 21,631 ” General 85,657 ” In consequence of the deficiency of fresh water Jizak is an unhealthy town, more malaria prevailing in the locality than in any other part of Turkestan, with the exception of the Murghab and Kushk valleys. The Russian quarter, which was formerly the Kluchevi fortress, possesses a number of public gardens. There are only thirty-six private houses in the settlement and these, in the main, are occupied by officials. The public buildings include two schools, a military hospital, a military Orthodox Church, the Chancellery of the District Governor, the District Treasury and other offices. The population at the last census was 17,000. _Mahommedans._ _Russians._ 16,614 386 _Males._ _Females._ 9247 7753 The native quarter is of far greater commercial importance than the Russian town and is situated 3 versts from it. Indeed, the latter is almost solely a cantonment. The native town possesses: Houses 3000 Sunnite mosques 54 Shiite mosques 2 Native schools 22 The town revenue is 22,842 roubles and the value of Government property rather less than 600,000 roubles. There are no hotels in either quarter.