Shchekino
Also known as Shchëkino, Shchyokino
Shchekino (), also romanized Shchyokino, is a town and the administrative center of Shchyokinsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Moscow—Simferopol highway (M2), south of Tula, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 72,000 (1977).
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- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Shchekino
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Щёкино
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
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- In Shchekino
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- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Schyokino (Tula oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Schyekino (Tula oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Tula Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Shchyokinsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Shchekino
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Town under district jurisdiction
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Shchekino (), also romanized Shchyokino, is a town and the administrative center of Shchyokinsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Moscow—Simferopol highway (M2), south of Tula, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 72,000 (1977).
==History== It was founded in 1871 in connection with the development of brown coal deposits and soon supplanted Krapivna as the main settlement in the district. It was granted town status in 1938.
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