Sovetsk
Sovetsk is a city of 39,000 people in Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
- Type: Town with 38,300 residents
- Description: city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Sovetsk (Kaliningrad oblast)”, “Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast”, “Sovietskas”, “Til’zit”, “Tilsitt”, “Tylže”, “Сове́тск”, “Советск (Калининградская область)”, “Тилзит”, “Тильзит”, “Տիլզիտ”, “تيلسيت”, “سوفتسك، كالينينغراد أوبلاست”, “索维茨克”, and “蒂爾西特”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tilsit Theatre and Queen Louise bridge.
Sovetsk train station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Panemunė and Pagėgiai.
Panemunė
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Pagėgiai
Town
Sovetsk
- Categories: city of oblast significance, border city, and locality
- Location: Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.081° or 55° 4′ 52″ north
Longitude
21.8883° or 21° 53′ 18″ east
Population
38,300
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Established
1288
UN/LOCODE
RU SSK
Open location code
9G733VJQ+98
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sovetsk” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوفتسك”
- Armenian: “Սովետսկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Sovetsk”
- Basque: “Sovetsk”
- Belarusian: “Савецк”
- Belarusian: “Тыльзыт”
- Bosnian: “Sovjetsk”
- Bulgarian: “Советск”
- Catalan: “Sovetsk”
- Cebuano: “Sovetsk”
- Chechen: “Советск (Калининградан область)”
- Chechen: “Советск”
- 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”
- Danish: “Sovetsk”
- Danish: “Sovjetsk”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sovetsk”
- Dutch: “Sovjetsk”
- Esperanto: “Sovetsk”
- Estonian: “Sovetsk”
- Finnish: “Sovetsk”
- French: “Sovetsk”
- German: “Sowetsk”
- 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: “Tilžė” (historical)
- Low German: “Tels”
- Luxembourgish: “Sowetsk”
- Macedonian: “Советск”
- Malagasy: “Tilsit”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sovetsk (Kaliningrad Chiu)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sovetsk”
- Northern Frisian: “Sowetsk”
- Northern Frisian: “Sowjetsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sovetsk”
- 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”
- Persian: “سووتسک”
- Polish: “Sowieck”
- Polish: “Tylża”
- Portuguese: “Sovetsk”
- Romanian: “Sovețk”
- Romanian: “Sovetsk”
- Russian: “Советск”
- Scots: “Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast”
- Scots: “Sovetsk”
- Serbian: “Совјетск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sovetsk”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sovjetsk”
- Slovak: “Sovietsk”
- Slovenian: “Sovjetsk”
- 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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