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Yefremov (town)
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Yefremovsky District
Yefremovsky 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
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 Krasivaya Mecha River
Krasivaya Mecha River
Krasivaya Mecha is a river in Tula and Lipetsk Oblasts in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Don River, and is 244 km in length, with a drainage basin of 6000 km². The river freezes over in late November and is icebound until early April....
(Don
Don River (Russia)
The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....
'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...
), 149 kilometres (92.6 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:
It was founded in 1637 as a fortress defending the southern borders of the Tsardom of Russia
Tsardom of Russia
The Tsardom of Russia was the name of the centralized Russian state from Ivan IV's assumption of the title of Tsar in 1547 till Peter the Great's foundation of the Russian Empire in 1721.From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew 35,000 km2 a year...
. It was granted town status in 1777.