Lipki, Tula Oblast
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Lipki is a town in Kireyevsky District
Kireyevsky District
Kireyevsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 23 in Tula Oblast, Russia....

 of Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast is a federal subject of Russia with its present borders formed on September 26, 1937. Its administrative center is the city of Tula. The oblast has an area of and a population of 1,553,874...

, Russia
Russia
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, located 38 kilometres (23.6 mi) south of Tula
Tula, Russia
Tula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia. It is located south of Moscow, on the Upa River. Population: -History:...

. Population:

The village of Lipki has been known since at least the 17th century. In 1949, it was granted urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

 status due to the development of coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

deposits. It was granted town status in 1955.
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