Plavsk

Plawsk (Russian Плавск ) is a small town with 16,165 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) and the center of the Rajons same name in the Tula Oblast in Russia, Central Russia federal district.

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Geography

The city is located on the central Russian plate on both banks of the river Plawa (Russian Плава ), about 60 km south-west of the regional capital Tula away. Nearest towns, around 35 km from Plawsk removed are Sowetsk and Shchekino. The landscape in and around the city is predominantly hilly.

History

Plawsk was first mentioned as a village in 1540 - at that time under the name Sergijewskoje - and was in the 19th century, especially after the connection to the railway network, an embossed from trading village. As a city Plawsk is the place since 1926, where his civic rights had been revoked in the meantime again from 1935 to 1949.

The Chernobyl disaster ( April 1986) has been among the towns relatively hard hit Plawsk on Russian territory, as fell down on the city of rain from radioactive clouds, whereby the soil and water with radioactive cesium ( 137Cs ) were contaminated.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

Since Plawsk is a rather provincial town, there are correspondingly few industrial companies. The most important is the separator plant smychka (Russian Смычка ).

Traffic

The city is accessible both by car and by train from Moscow. Firstly Plawsk is located on the highway M2, on the other hand goes through the place an important railway line connecting the capital Moscow with the southern part of Russia (including with Kursk and Belgorod ). For this reason, there is at this range a through traffic, but it does not all trains stop in place. With regional trains Plawsk is however well connected to Tula and other cities. The city not only has a small railway station on a bus station.

Church of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (built 1774)

Trading Arcades ( built in 1881 )

Station Plawsk

Lenin monument in the square of the October Revolution (1963 built )