Tilsit
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 The old town of Sovetsk, with German-era buildings |
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.svg) Location of Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia |
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| Administrative status (as of November 2011) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Kaliningrad Oblast |
| Administratively subordinated to | town of oblast significance of Sovetsk |
| Administrative center of | town of oblast significance of Sovetsk |
| Municipal status (as of July 2009) | |
| Urban okrug | Sovetsky Urban Okrug |
| Administrative center of | Sovetsky Urban Okrug |
| Head | Viktor Smilgin |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 41,705 inhabitants |
| Time zone | USZ1 (UTC+02:00) |
| Founded | 1288 |
| Town status since | 1552 |
| Previous names | Tilsit (until 1946) |
| Postal code(s) | 238750 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 40161 |
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Sovetsk (Russian: Сове́тск), before 1946 known as Tilsit (Lithuanian: Tilžė; Polish: Tylża) in East Prussia, is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River. Population: 41,705 (2010 Census);43,224 (2002 Census);41,881 (1989 Census).
Sovetsk lies at the confluence of the Tilse (Russian: Тыльжа Tylzha, Lithuanian Tilže) with the Neman.
Tilsit, which received civic rights from Albert, Duke of Prussia in 1552, grew up around a castle of the Teutonic Knights, known as the Schalauer Haus, founded in 1288.
The Treaties of Tilsit were signed here in July 1807, the preliminaries of which were settled by the emperors Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France on a raft moored in the Neman River. This treaty, which created the Kingdom of Westphalia and the Duchy of Warsaw, completed Napoleon's humiliation of the Kingdom of Prussia, when it was deprived of one half of its dominions.
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