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Sovetsk

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Also known as Tilsit, Tilžė

city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

AI overview

Sovetsk is a city located in Kaliningrad Oblast, a region of Russia on the Baltic Sea. It serves as an important industrial and transportation hub for the western part of Russia.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
border city
Official name
Тильзит
Population
56573
Area
44.4
Elevation
10
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Official website
sovetsk.gov39.ru
Image
Улица Победы в Тильзите.jpg
Dialing code
40161
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twinned administrative body
Bełchatów
Commons category
Sovetsk
category for people born here
Q18668242
postal code
238750–238769
topic's main category
Category:Sovetsk
inception
1288-00-00
native label
Тильзит
P6482
Sovetsk
time of earliest written record
1385-00-00
different from
Sovetsk
nickname
Город «Зелёного театра»
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Encyclopedic overview

Sovetsk (Russian: Сове́тск; German: Tilsit [ˈtɪlzɪt] ; Lithuanian: Tilžė; Polish: Tylża) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.

Founded in the medieval period and granted municipal rights in 1552, it is one of the historically most important towns of the oblast and the traditional capital of the region of Lithuania Minor. It was the place where two treaties were concluded, of great importance in the history of France, Poland, Lithuania, Germany and Russia. It is the place of origin of the Tilsit cheese.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sovetsk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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