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The official town of Tilsit (Sovetsk) website, formely Eastern Prussia, presently weternmost Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. History, maps, forum, photos. 

Topics covered: 
Tilsit, Eastern Prussia, Germany,1945 Prussia, OstenPrussen, peace of Tilsit, 1812, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, 1807, Franko-Prussian War, Russia, Napolen, czar Alexander, Sovetsk, Kaliningrad region, former Eastern Prussia, World War Two.

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TILSIT - Overview>General Information 
 What encyclopedias have to say... 
Tilsit - Sovetsk - town (1989 pop. 41,900), NW European 
Russia, on the Neman River at the mouth of the Tilse. It is a rail junction, a river port, and an 
industrial and commercial center in an agricultural area.Tilsit Lumbering and woodworking are the chief industries; others include the production of machines, cotton cloth, and Tilsit cheese. 
The town grew around a castle built in 1288 by 
the Teutonic Knights and was chartered in 1552. 
Napoleon I, having won the battle of Friedland, 
met Emperor Alexander I of Russia on June 25, 1807, on a 
raft in the Neman River off Tilsit. 
Their negotiations, joined later by King Frederick William III of 
Prussia, an ally of Russia, led to the treaties of Tilsit of July 7 
and July 9, 1807. By the first treaty, 
France made peace with Russia, which recognized the grand duchy of Warsaw and which secretly promised to mediate between France and England; if England should reject mediation, Russia was to ally itself with France. Tilsit At the same time, France gave Russia a free hand with regard to Finland, then a Swedish possession. The Russo-French alliance proved tenuous and collapsed altogether in 1812. In the second treaty, Napoleon drastically reduced Prussia, which lost all its territory west of the Elbe to France and most of its Polish provinces to the grand duchy of Warsaw. Danzig became a free city, the Prussian army was reduced to 42,000 men, several leading Prussian fortresses were to be garrisoned by French troops, and Prussia was to join in the Continental System against Tilsit
England. Prussia was thus reduced to virtual vassalage to France, from which it freed itself only in 1813. Tilsit was occupied by Soviet forces in World War II and was transferred, along with other sections of East Prussia, to the USSR at the Potsdam Conference of 1945. Tilsit
 

 How to get there... Tilsit 
Tilsit Sovetsk is located on the Lithuanian-Russian border, on the south bank of the 
river Neman (Memel).Tilsit Driving from the Lithuanian side is not recommended 
due to heavy traffic conditions and delays associated with the border control. 
From the region's administrative center Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) you can 
take a train or a bus heading to Sovetsk. The distance is about 120 km. 
In the past, one could also enter the town by water, but boat service seems to 
have ceased and is now virtually nonexistant due to post-Soviet economic hardships. 
 
 

 Railroads Tilsit 
Tilsit Sovetsk's Railroad Station 
phone: +7 (01161) 72635 Tilsit
Tickets to virtually all destinations in Kaliningrad Reg. as well as the 
"continental" Russia. 
Tilsit.
 
 

 Bus service Tilsit 
Sovetsk's main bus terminal is located next to the railroad station. 
Their administrative contact and offices are in a different town: 
State Enterprise "Sovetsk Bus Lines" 
Ladushkin of Kaliningrad Reg, Russia Tilsit
8-a Pervomayskaya Str. 
phone +7 (256) 72455 
 

 Radio stations Tilsit 
Radio "Baltic Plus" branch in Sovetsk Tilsit
12 Goncharova Str. 
phone: (01161) 74676 
Radio "Massiv" 101.9 FM 
238750 Sovetsk, POB 98 
 

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