Serebryanye Prudy is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

) and the administrative center of Serebryano-Prudsky District

Serebryano-Prudsky District

Serebryano-Prudsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 38 in Moscow Oblast, Russia....

 of Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast , or Podmoskovye , is a federal subject of Russia . Its area, at , is relatively small compared to other federal subjects, but it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and, with the 2010 population of 7,092,941, is the second most populous federal subject...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Osyotr River

Osyotr River

Osyotr River is a river in Tula and Moscow Oblasts in Russia, a right tributary of the Oka River. The length of the river is 228 km. The area of its basin is 3,480 km². The Osyotr freezes up in November and stays icebound until the first half of April. The town of Zaraysk is located on the Osyotr...

. Among the district centers of Moscow Oblast, it is the southernmost, and the farthest from Moscow

Moscow

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. Population:

Serebryanye Prudy stands on the M6 highway

M6 highway (Russia)

The Russian route M6 is a major trunk road that links Moscow to the Caspian Sea. The road branches off the Russian route M4 south of Stupino and goes southeast across Ryazan Oblast, Tambov Oblast and Volgograd Oblast, running along the right bank of the Volga through Volgograd before terminating...

 (Moscow–Astrakhan

Astrakhan

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) and the Moscow–Volgograd

Volgograd

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 railway.

Serebryanye Prudy was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1571. Under the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, it was a village of Venyovsky Uyezd of Tula Governorate. It became a district center in 1924. In 1929, Serebryanye Prudy was transferred to the Central Industrial Oblast which in September 1937 was split, with the village finding itself again in 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...

, only to be included into Moscow Oblast in 1942. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1961.

Postal code: 142970. Dialing code: +7 49667.