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TILSIT -
Overview>General Information
What
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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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