Uzlovaya is a town and the administrative center of Uzlovsky District

Uzlovsky District

Uzlovsky 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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It was founded in 1873 as a railway station

Train station

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 Khrushchyovskaya . It was renamed Uzlovaya in 1877, and granted town status in 1938. The station connects three important railway directions: Ryazhsk

Ryazhsk

Ryazhsk is town and the administrative center of Ryazhsky District of Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located south of Ryazan. Population: 26,000 ....

, Elets and Tula

Tula

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. The railway influenced much the life and the future of the town. The first coal mines were founded in the late 30s. Their development dominated such mining villages as Dubovka, Brusnyanky, Kamenetsky, Gornyatsky. Nowadays the mines do not work.