Kimovsk (russian: Ки́мовск) is a

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and the

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Kimovsky District Kimovsky District (russian: Ки́мовский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-three in Tula Oblast, Russia.Law #954-ZTO As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kimovsky Municipal District.Law #547 ...

Tula Oblast Tula Oblast (russian: Ту́льская о́бласть, ''Tulskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an Oblasts of Russia, oblast) of Russia. It is geographically in the European Russia region of the country and is p ...

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, located at the

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of the

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and

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s, southeast of

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, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

The village of Mikhaylovka () has been known since the 17th century. It developed during the

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in connection with intensive

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

exploitation at the

Moscow Coal Basin Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million re ...

. The

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built numerous mines on the lands of a

kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz., a contraction of советское хозяйство, soviet ownership or ...

called ''

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'' (, abbreviated as "", or ''KIM'') and a habitat for miners. It was granted work settlement status and given its present name in 1948; town status was granted to it in 1952.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kimovsk serves as the

.Law #954-ZTO As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Kimovsky District as Kimovsk Town Under District Jurisdiction.Law #954-ZTO defines a town under district jurisdiction as a town which is a part of one of the districts of the oblast.

OKATO Russian Classification on Objects of Administrative DivisionThe English name of the document is given per the English title included on the document's first page. (russian: Общеросси́йский классифика́тор объе́кт ...

lists the town of Kimovsk as a part of Kimovsky District and separately from other administrative divisions of the district. As a municipal division, Kimovsk Town Under District Jurisdiction is incorporated within Kimovsky Municipal District as Kimovsk Urban Settlement.Law #547-ZTO

Transportation

Bus station and railway station share a building. Bus routes originating from Kimovsk include

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

Ryazan Ryazan ( rus, Рязань, p=rʲɪˈzanʲ, a=ru-Ryazan.ogg) is the largest city and administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia, southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Census ...

, Novomoskovsk,

Uzlovaya Uzlovaya (russian: Узлова́я) is a town and the administrative center of Uzlovsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia. Population: History It was founded in 1873 as Khrushchyovskaya () railway station. It was renamed Uzlovaya in 1877 and gr ...

, and other destinations.

Culture

There is a museum of local lore in Kimovsk. The Memorial of the

is located on the outskirts of Karachevsky forest.

References

Sources

Notes

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External links

Unofficial website of Kimovsk

Kimovsk news portal
*Encyclopedia "My Town"

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