KYSHTYM, a town of Russia, in the government of Perm, 56 m. by rail N.N.W. of Chelyabinsk, on a river of the samename which connects two lakes. Pop. (1897), 12,331. Tile official name is Verkhne-Kyshtymskiy-Zavod, or Upper KyshtymWorks, to distinguish it from the Lower (Nizhne) KyshtymWorks, situated two miles lower down the same river.