Aleksin

Aleksin is a city and the place of Aleksinsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located 71 kilometers northwest of Tula, the place of work of the oblast. It changed into founded on the end of the thirteenth century and primary noted in 1348 in the Nikon Chronicle. Aleksin became sacked with the aid of Khan Akhmat in 1472 during his invasion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Because of its location on the Oka River, it turned into, for some time, an essential inland port.

Aleksin was granted metropolis repute in 1777. The town improved in the 1930s with the construction of a chemical plant. Within the framework of administrative divisions, Aleksin serves as the place of job of Aleksinsky District and is incorporated inside it as a metropolis under district jurisdiction. As a municipal division, the metropolis of Aleksin, collectively with 154 rural localities in Aleksinsky District, is integrated as Aleksin Urban Okrug.