Kimovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kimovsky District

Kimovsky District

Kimovsky 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

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, located at the watershed

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

 of the Don

Don River (Russia)

The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....

 and Volga River

Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...

s 77 kilometres (47.8 mi) southeast of Tula

Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia. It is located south of Moscow, on the Upa River. Population: -History:...

. Population:

History

Kimovsk was founded during the Great Patriotic War in connection with intensive coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

 exploitation at the Moscow Coal Basin. The Soviets

Soviet Union

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 built numerous mines on the lands of a kolkhoz

Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz , plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms . The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective farm", while sovkhoz is a contraction of советское хозяйство...

 called Young Communist International

Young Communist International

The Young Communist International was the parallel international youth organization affiliated with the Communist International .-International socialist youth organization before World War I:...

and habitat for miners in a settlement of Mikhaylovka . In 1948, Mikhaylovka was renamed Kimovsk and granted town status in 1952.

Transport

Bus station and railway station share a building. Bus routes originating from Kimovsk include Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Tula

Tula, Russia

Tula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia. It is located south of Moscow, on the Upa River. Population: -History:...

, Ryazan

Ryazan

Ryazan is a city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Population: The strategic bomber base Dyagilevo is just west of the city, and the air base of Alexandrovo is to the southeast as is the Ryazan Turlatovo Airport...

, Novomoskovsk

Novomoskovsk, Russia

Novomoskovsk , called Bobriki before 1934 and Stalinogorsk between 1934 and 1961, is a city in Tula Oblast, Russia, located at the source of the Don and Shat Rivers. Population: 143,000 ; 107,000 ; 76,000 ....

, Uzlovaya

Uzlovaya

Uzlovaya is a town and the administrative center of Uzlovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1873 as a railway station Khrushchyovskaya . It was renamed Uzlovaya in 1877, and granted town status in 1938. The station connects three important railway directions:...

, and other places.

Points of interest

• Museum of local lore.
• Memorial of Great Patriotic War
  Great Patriotic War (term)
  The term Great Patriotic War , Velíkaya Otéchestvennaya voyná,) is used in Russia and some other states of the former Soviet Union to describe the portion of World War II from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945, against Nazi Germany and its allies in the many fronts of Soviet-German war.-History:The term...
  
  in the outskirts of Karathevsky forest.

External links

• Information portal of Tula Oblast. Kimovsk and Kimovsky District
• Unofficial website of Kimovsk
• Kimovsk news portal
• Encyclopedia "My Town". Entry on Kimovsk