Sovetsk

Sovetsk is a city of 39,000 people in of on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
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  • Type: Town with 38,300 residents
  • Description: city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
  • Also known as: “Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast”, “Til’zit”, “Tilsit”, and “Tilžė”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tilsit Theatre and Queen Louise bridge.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

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The is a bridge over the Neman River on the Lithuania–Russia border, that connects the Lithuanian town of and the Russian city of Sovetsk. It is named after Queen Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Panemunė and Pagėgiai.

Town
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is the smallest settlement with city status in . It is situated on the banks of the Nemunas River opposite Sovetsk, 8 km south from , in .

Town
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is a town in south-western . It is located in the medieval region of Scalovia in the historic region of . It is the capital of municipality, and as such it is part of . is situated 6 km north of Sovetsk.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 6 km southeast of Sovetsk.

Sovetsk

Latitude
55.081° or 55° 4′ 52″ north
Longitude
21.8883° or 21° 53′ 18″ east
Population
38,300
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Inception
1288
United Nations Location Code
RU SSK
Open location code
9G733VJQ+98
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60238387
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
490068
Wiki­data ID
Q5647
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Sovetsk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيلسيت”
  • Arabic: “سوفتسك، كالينينغراد أوبلاست”
  • Arabic: “سوفتسك”
  • Armenian: “Սովետսկ”
  • Armenian: “Տիլզիտ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sovetsk”
  • Basque: “Sovetsk”
  • Basque: “Tilsit”
  • Basque: “Tilžė”
  • Belarusian: “Савецк”
  • Belarusian: “Тыльзыт”
  • Bosnian: “Sovjetsk”
  • Bulgarian: “Советск”
  • Catalan: “Sovetsk”
  • Catalan: “Tilsit”
  • Cebuano: “Sovetsk”
  • Chechen: “Советск (Калининградан область)”
  • Chechen: “Советск”
  • Chinese: “Sovetsk”
  • Chinese: “索维茨克”
  • Chinese: “苏维埃茨克”
  • Chinese: “蘇維埃茨克”
  • Chuvash: “Советск”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sovetsk (Kaliningrad vilâyeti)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sovetsk”
  • Croatian: “Sovjetsk”
  • Czech: “Sovětsk”
  • Czech: “Tilsit”
  • Czech: “Tylže”
  • Danish: “Sovetsk”
  • Danish: “Sovjetsk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sovetsk”
  • Dutch: “Sovjetsk”
  • Esperanto: “Sovetsk”
  • Estonian: “Sovetsk”
  • Finnish: “Sovetsk”
  • French: “Sovetsk”
  • French: “Tilsit”
  • French: “Tilsitt”
  • German: “Sowetsk”
  • German: “Tilžė”
  • German: “Tilsit” (historical)
  • Greek: “Σοβιέτσκ”
  • Hebrew: “סובטסק”
  • Hungarian: “Szovjetszk”
  • Indonesian: “Sovetsk, Kaliningrad”
  • Indonesian: “Sovetsk”
  • Italian: “Sovetsk”
  • Japanese: “ソヴィェツク”
  • Korean: “소베츠크”
  • Latin: “Tilsa”
  • Latvian: “Sovetska”
  • Lithuanian: “Sovetskas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sovietskas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tilžė” (historical)
  • Low German: “Tels”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sowetsk”
  • Macedonian: “Советск”
  • Macedonian: “Тилзит”
  • Malagasy: “Tilsit”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sovetsk (Kaliningrad Chiu)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sowetsk”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sowjetsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sovetsk (Kaliningrad oblast)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sovetsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sovjetsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tilsit”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sovetsk i Kaliningrad oblast”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sovetsk”
  • Norwegian: “Sovetsk”
  • Norwegian: “Sovjetsk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sovetsk”
  • Ossetian: “Советск (Калининграды облæст)”
  • Ossetian: “Советск”
  • Persian: “سووتسک، کالینینگراد”
  • Polish: “Sowieck”
  • Polish: “Tylża”
  • Portuguese: “Sovetsk”
  • Romanian: “Sovețk”
  • Romanian: “Sovetsk”
  • Russian: “Советск (Калининградская область)”
  • Russian: “Советск”
  • Russian: “Сове́тск”
  • Russian: “Тильзит”
  • Scots: “Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast”
  • Scots: “Sovetsk”
  • Serbian: “Совјетск”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sovetsk”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sovjetsk”
  • Slovak: “Sovietsk”
  • Slovenian: “Sovjetsk”
  • Slovenian: “Tilsit”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سووتسک”
  • Spanish: “Sovetsk”
  • Swedish: “Sovetsk”
  • Tagalog: “Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast”
  • Tagalog: “Sovetsk”
  • Talysh: “Sovetsk (Kaliningrad)”
  • Talysh: “Sovetsk”
  • Tatar: “Советск”
  • Turkish: “Sovetsk”
  • Turkish: “Sovyetsk”
  • Ukrainian: “Совєтськ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sowjetsk”
  • Uzbek: “Sovetsk (Kaliningrad viloyati)”
  • Uzbek: “Sovetsk”
  • Veps: “Sovetsk”
  • Vietnamese: “Sovetsk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sovetsk”
  • Welsh: “Sovetsk”

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