Kotovsk, Russia

Kotovsk, Russia

Kotovsk ( _ru. Котовск) is a town in Tambov Oblast, Russia, located on the Tsna River some 13 km south of Tambov. Population: 33,300 (2005 est.); 34,054 (2002 Census); 38,510 (1989 Census).

Kotovsk was founded before World War I as a settlement for workers who were engaged in the construction of the gun powder factory (commissioned in 1912). Initially, it was a neighborhood of Tambov called Porokhovoy Zavod ( _ru. Порохово́й Заво́д, or "Gun Powder Factory"). The neighborhood was then turned into a town called Krasny Boyevik ( _ru. Кра́сный Боеви́к, or "Red Fighter"). In 1940, it was granted town status and renamed Kotovsk after Grigore Kotovski (1881–1925), who had suppressed an anti-Soviet peasant rebellion in Tambov guberniya in 1921.


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