Sosensky

Sosensky ( _ru. Сосенский) is a town in Kozelsky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located in the southeastern part of the oblast, km to mi|90 south-west of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast, and km to mi|10 from Kozelsk, the administrative center of the district. Population: 12,300 (2006 est.);fact|date=March 2008 ru-census|p02=12623|p89=13275

It was founded in April 1952 as the coal-mining settlement of Tsentralny Kozelskogo Stroyupravleniya ( _ru. Центра́льный Козе́льского стройуправле́ния). On January 27, 1954 it was granted status of urban-type settlement and renamed Leninsky ( _ru. Ленинский); however, for an unknown reason it was renamed Shepelevsky ( _ru. Шепелевский) on April 5, 1954 and finally Sosensky on April 10, 1954. It was granted town status in 1991.

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* [http://www.sosensky.ru Official website of Sosensky]