Kotovsk is a town in Tambov Oblast

Tambov Oblast

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, Russia

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, located on the Tsna River

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 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of Tambov

Tambov

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. Population:

Kotovsk was founded before World War I

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 under the initiative of Tsar

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 Nicholas II

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 as a settlement for workers who were engaged in the construction of the gunpowder

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 factory (commissioned in 1912). Initially, it was a neighborhood of Tambov called Porokhovoy Zavod . The neighborhood was then turned into a town called Krasny Boyevik , because it was used by Bolshevik

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 as a lodgement

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 for the establishment of their government in the region. In 1940, it was granted town status and renamed Kotovsk after Grigory Kotovsky (1881–1925), who had suppressed an anti-Soviet

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 peasant rebellion in Tambov Governorate

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in 1921.

The railway station was closed.