Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Tula Oblast
- Administrative district
- Shchyokinsky District
- Town under district jurisdiction selsovi
- Sovetsk
- Elevation
- 200 m (660 ft)
- Total
- 7,536
- Estimate 2021
- 7,889 ( +4.7% )
- Capital of
- Sovetsk Town Under District Jurisdiction
- Municipal district
- Shchyokinsky Municipal District
- Urban settlement
- Sovetsk Urban Settlement
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( MSK )
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Encyclopedic overview
Sovetsk (Russian: Сове́тск) is a town in Shchyokinsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Upa River (Oka's basin), 43 kilometers (27 mi) south of Tula, the administrative center of the oblast. The population of Sovetsk was 7,889 at the 2021 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sovetsk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.