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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Official name
- Тильзит
- Country
- German Reich
- Located in
- Nemansky District
- 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
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
- topic's main category
- Category:Sovetsk
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- inception
- 1288-00-00
- native label
- Тильзит
- P6482
- Sovetsk
- time of earliest written record
- 1385-00-00
- P8168
- Broken Circle
- 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.
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