Sovetsk

Also known as Tilsit, Tilžė

city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

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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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Official name: Тильзит
Population: 56573
Area: 44.4
Elevation: 10
Official website: sovetsk.gov39.ru
Image: Улица Победы в Тильзите.jpg
Dialing code: 40161

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Commons category: Sovetsk
postal code: 238750–238769
inception: 1288-00-00
native label: Тильзит
P6482: Sovetsk
time of earliest written record: 1385-00-00
P8168: Broken Circle
nickname: Город «Зелёного театра»

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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.