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Sovetsk municipality

GENERAL INFORMATION

Area: 43,б75 km.2
Population: 43,7 thous.persons
Density: 999 persons/km.2
Distance by road (to Kaliningrad): 123 km
Urban/rural population: 23,6%/76,4%

Domestic product:

Industry: 5 570,7 mln.rubles
Agriculture: none

Largest populated points:

Sovetsk: 43 737 inhabitants
Zalesje: 1 251 inhabitants
Saranskoe: 992 inhabitants

Production:

Manufacture of knitted clothes for babies; production of sports clothes and accessories, Manufacture of underwear and Stockings; Food products (bread and bakery, meat processing, preserves and canned food production, milk products, cheese and butter production, imitation crabmeat, mineral water and lemonade, flour production; Production of equipment for ensuring high-quality and safe operation of railway tracks; Production of hydraulic equipment, hoses, and abrasive disks for polishing machines; Manufacture of TV casings and other TV set components; Production of wood pulp, various kinds of paper, cardboard, corrugated-cardboard ontainers, wall-paper, paper cleaning goods, technical

Economics development directions:

logistics and transport;
recreation;
environmentally clean industrial production.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Transport:

Railroad communications – packet and passengers’ stations in Sovetsk city.
Motor road communication – road of Federal meaning А216 (E77) Kaliningrad-Vilnius-Minsk-Moscow.

Power engineering:

Available capacity – 50 MW
Capacity reserve – absent

There is currently a deficit of energy supply capacity.
It is planned to build an additional substation.

Gas supply:

Available capacity – 50 MW
Capacity reserve – none

Water supply:

Water supply is possible to be implemented from artesian wells.

Education:

Specialties of educational institutions of vocational training:
Lyceum №14: garment manufactures operator, engineer-technologist, tailor, dress cutter, hairdresser, etc.
Lyceum № 12: head cashier, foods and nonfoods commodities salesman, cook-confectioner, baker, laboratory assistant;
Vocational school № 1: motor mechanic, electrician, fitter, lathe operator, paper-making machine operator, computer operator.
cinema engineering college: audiovisual technology, economics, account, Audit and control;
Culture and Arts local college: specialities: library service, social and culture activity and amateur and folk arts.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Head of administration: Victor Smilgin
238750, Russia, Kaliningrad region, Sovetsk, Teatralnaya str., 3,
tel.: +7 (40161) 2 24 77; fax: +7 (40161) 2 20 35
email: admsob@baltnet.ru; web site: www.sovetsk-tilzit.ru

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