Sovetsk (Tula)
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Sovetsk
Советск
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Sowetsk ( Russian Советск ) is a small town in Tula Oblast ( Russia ) with 7536 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 40 km south of the oblast capital Tula on the left bank of the Upa , a right tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga, which is dammed up here to form the Shchokino dam .
Sovetsk is located in Shchokino Raion , about 18 kilometers southeast of the Rajon administrative center.
history
From the end of the 1940s, in connection with the construction of the Shchokino thermal power station, a workers' settlement was built on the banks of the Upa, which was dammed up as a cooling water reservoir for the power station. On July 1, 1950, the power station went into operation and in 1954 the settlement was granted town charter.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 10,099 |
1970 | 11,024 |
1979 | 10,432 |
1989 | 10,077 |
2002 | 8,770 |
2010 | 7,536 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
The Shchokino thermal power plant ( Schchokinskaya GRES ) of the regional energy company TGK-4 with an installed capacity of 400 megawatts is located near Sovetsk .
The city also has smaller plants for additional boiler equipment and pipes, insulation materials, and a furniture and textile factory.
The closest train station is Schitowo about ten kilometers west of Sovetsk on the Moscow- Tula- Kursk - Kharkiv route . North of the city also the industrial railway runs (only freight) Schtschokino- Lipki - kireyevsk -Dedilowo (at uzlovaya ) over.
sons and daughters of the town
- Ekaterina Kalinchuk (1922-1997), gymnast
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
Web links
- Sovetsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)