Chekalin
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Chekalin formerly known as Likhvin is a town in Suvorovsky District
of Tula Oblast
, Russia
, located on the left bank of the Oka River
. Population: It is the least populous inhabited locality in Russia with the town status.
In 1944, Likhvin was renamed Chekalin in honor of a Soviet partisan Alexander Chekalin.
Suvorovsky District
Suvorovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 23 in Tula Oblast, Russia....
of Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast is a federal subject of Russia with its present borders formed on September 26, 1937. Its administrative center is the city of Tula. The oblast has an area of and a population of 1,553,874...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located on the left bank of the Oka River
Oka River
Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...
. Population: It is the least populous inhabited locality in Russia with the town status.
In 1944, Likhvin was renamed Chekalin in honor of a Soviet partisan Alexander Chekalin.