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Serebryanye Prudy (russian: Сере́бряные Пруды́, lit. ''Silver Ponds'') is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the
Serebryanye Prudy (russian: Сере́бряные Пруды́, lit. ''Silver Ponds'') is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
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of Serebryano-Prudsky District of Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...
, Russia
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, located on the Osyotr River
The Osyotr (russian: Осётр) is a river in Tula Oblast, Tula and Moscow Oblasts in Russia, a right tributary of the Oka (river), Oka.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 ...
. Population:
Serebryanye Prudy stands on the M6 highway (Moscow– Astrakhan) and the Moscow– Volgograd railway.
Serebryanye Prudy was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1571. Under the Russian Empire
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, it was a village of Venyovsky Uyezd Venyovsky Uyezd (''Венёвский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Tula Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Venyov.
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of Tula Governorate
Tula Governorate (russian: Тульская губерния) was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the south of Moscow Governorate.
The Governate existed from 1796 to 1929; its s ...
. It became a district center in 1924. In 1929, Serebryanye Prudy was transferred to the Central Industrial Oblast which in September 1937 was split, with the village finding itself again in 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 ...
, only to be included into Moscow Oblast in 1942. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1961.
Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov was born here in 1900.
Postal code: 142970. Dialing code: +7 49667.
References
{{Reflist Urban-type settlements in Moscow Oblast Vyatichi Venyovsky Uyezd