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=Russellkonda=
(' Russell's hill ') Town in the Goomsur taluk of 
Ganjam District, Madras, situated m 19 57' N. and 84 37' E , about 
50 miles north-west of Berhampur on the Loharakandi river. It is 
called after Mr George Russell, who was appointed Special Commis- 
sioner in 1835 t P ut down the disturbances in the country round 
about. Population (1901), 3,493. It is the head-quarters of the 
subdivision and taluk of Goomsur, and of the Special Assistant Agent, 
Balhguda subdivision. It contains a training school chiefly intended 
for teachers for the schools in the Agency tract, a tannery which m 
1903 employed an average of 45 persons daily and turned out 50 tons 
of leather valued at about Rs. 49,000, and a jail in charge of the 
Special Assistant Agent. This last was built for convicts belonging to 
the hill countiy, to save them from the severe fever they become liable 
to if sent down to the coast. It contains accommodation for 158 
prisoners, who aie employed in stone-quarrying, oil-pressing, weaving, 
rice-pounding, and making elephant harness. Russellkonda was at 
one time a mihtaiy cantonment, but the troops were withdrawn in 
December, 1863.