Shchyokino

Shchyokino is a metropolis and the place of job of Shchyokinsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, positioned on the Moscow—Simferopol motorway sixteen mi south of Tula, the administrative center of the oblast. It changed into based in 1871 in reference to the development of brown coal deposits and shortly supplanted Krapivna as the principle settlement in the district. It turned into granted town repute in 1938 Within the framework of administrative divisions, Shchyokino serves because the workplace of Shchyokinsky District. As an administrative division, it's miles included inside Shchyokinsky District as Shchyokino Town Under District Jurisdiction.

As a municipal division, Shchyokino Town Under District Jurisdiction is included within Shchyokinsky Municipal District as Shchyokino Urban Settlement. Shchyokino, additionally spelled Shchokino, Shchekino, or scekino, city and centre of a rayon quarter, Tula oblast region, western Russia. Coal mining started within the locality in 1870, exploiting the lignite brown coal of the Moscow coalfield; chemical issues, the product of foreign funding, were also quickly hooked up. Shchyokino later evolved an essential chemical-enterprise complicated, primarily based largely on herbal gasoline piped from Stavropol. Pop. 2006 est.