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Kozelsky District
Kozelsky District is an administrative district , one of the 24 in Kaluga Oblast, Russia....
of Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga.-Geography:Kaluga Oblast is located in the central part of the East European Plain. The Smolensk Highland lays in the western and north-western part of the oblast, while the Central Russian Highland -...
, 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 in the southeastern part of the oblast, 90 kilometres (55.9 mi) southwest of Kaluga
Kaluga
Kaluga is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population: It is served by Grabtsevo Airport.-History:...
, the administrative center of the oblast, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Kozelsk
Kozelsk
Kozelsk is a town in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Zhizdra River , southwest of Kaluga. Population: -History:The town of Kozelsk was first mentioned in a chronicle under the year of 1146 as a part of Principality of Chernigov...
, the administrative center of the district. Population:
It was founded in April 1952 as the coal-mining settlement of Tsentralny Kozelskogo Stroyupravleniya . On January 27, 1954 it was granted 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...
status and renamed Leninsky ; however, for an unknown reason it was renamed Shepelevsky on April 5, 1954, and finally Sosensky on April 10, 1954. It was granted town status in 1991.