Spas-Klepiki
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Klepikovsky District
Klepikovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 25 in Ryazan Oblast, Russia....
of Ryazan Oblast
Ryazan Oblast
Ryazan Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Ryazan, which is the oblast's largest city. Population: -Geography:...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located on the Pra River
Pra River (Russia)
Pra River is a river in the Ryazan and Moscow Oblasts in Russia, a left tributary of the Oka River. It is 167 km in length. The area of its basin is 5,520 km². The Pra River freezes up in late November and stays under the ice until April....
(Oka
Oka River
Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...
's tributary
Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...
) 67 kilometres (41.6 mi) northeast of Ryazan
Ryazan
Ryazan is a city and the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Population: The strategic bomber base Dyagilevo is just west of the city, and the air base of Alexandrovo is to the southeast as is the Ryazan Turlatovo Airport...
. Population:
It was founded in the 16th century as a settlement of Klepiki and granted town status in 1920.