Kimovsk

Kimowsk (Russian Кимовск ) is a town in Tula Oblast (Russia) with 28 485 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Central Russian plate to its junction with the Oka -Don plain about 75 km southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Tula.

Kimowsk the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

The town was founded during the Second World War, was deemed to have begun with the active exploitation of lignite deposits of the Moscow Basin. On the farmed by KIM- kolkhoz land several coal pits created as well as the central settlement of the collective farm Mikhailovskoie a housing development for miners. KIM is the Russian acronym for Communist Youth International ( Kommunistitscheski Internazional Molodjoschi ), the youth section of the Communist International.

1948 was the place the status of an urban-type settlement under the present name, derived from the name of the collective farm, and on 31 March 1952, the city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

In the settlement and former city Jepifan of Rajons Kimowsk is a Historical- Ethnographic Museum.

Economy and infrastructure

After the extraction of brown coal as formerly dominant industry came to a halt in the 1990s, today there is a radio station as well as electronic companies in the food and construction industries.

The town lies on the railway line opened in 1874 Wjasma Tula Uslowaja - Ryazhsk ( kilometer 374).

By Kimowsk leads the regional road R114 Kaschira - Uslowaja, from which branches off here, the R145 after Kurkino.