Sovetsk (Tula)

city Sovetsk Советск flag Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tula Rajon Shchokino Founded Late 1940s City since 1954 surface 10  km² population 7536 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 754 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48751 Post Code 301205 License Plate 71 OKATO 70 248 504 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 56 '  N , 37 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '0 "  N , 37 ° 38' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tula Oblast

List of cities in Russia

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
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

1. ↑ ^{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)