Aleksin ( Russian : Але́ксин ) is a town and the administrative center of Aleksinsky District in Tula Oblast , Russia , located 71 kilometers (44 mi) northwest of Tula , the administrative center of the oblast . Population: 57,102 ( 2021 Census ) ; 61,732 ( 2010 Census ) ; 68,156 ( 2002 Census ) ; 74,274 ( 1989 Soviet census ) .
7-599: It was founded at the end of the 13th century and first mentioned in 1348 in the Nikon Chronicle . Aleksin was sacked by Khan Akhmat in 1472 during his invasion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow . Because of its location on the Oka River , it was, for a while, an important inland port. Aleksin was granted town status in 1777. The town expanded in the 1930s with the construction of a chemical plant. During World War II , Aleksin
14-654: A political ideology of the nascent Tsardom of Russia . The 12th-century Polovtsy and the 16th-century Kazan Tatars , for instance, are regularly conflated. The Academic copy of the Nikon Chronicle is currently being preserved in the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Saint Petersburg , with registration number "32.14.8". The Library acquired it in 1741 from the personal collection of Theophan Prokopovich , bishop of Moscow. An English translation by Serge Aleksandrovich Zenkovsky and his wife Betty Jean Zenkovsky
21-483: Is a compilation of Russian chronicles undertaken at the court of Ivan the Terrible in the mid-16th century. The compilation was named after Patriarch Nikon of Moscow , who owned a copy. In the 18th century, it was published under the name The Russian Chronicle According to Nikon's Manuscript . The chronicle covers the years from 859 to 1520, with additional information for 1521–1558, as well as many detailed tales about
28-582: The framework of administrative divisions , Aleksin serves as the administrative center of Aleksinsky District and is incorporated within it as a town under district jurisdiction . As a municipal division , the town of Aleksin, together with 154 rural localities in Aleksinsky District, is incorporated as Aleksin Urban Okrug . Aleksin is twinned with: Nikon Chronicle The Nikon Chronicle ( Russian : Никоновская летопись )
35-484: The Russian military. The air raid began around 9 p.m. with explosions reported around 3 a.m. on the 9th November. Cascading explosions at 1 p.m. due to chemicals catching fire from the earlier strikes led to authorities evacuating workers. Operations were halted at the plant. Russian sources did not acknowledge the attacks success, "as is common following a reported attack by Ukraine on one of [Russia's] military sites." Within
42-675: The most important events, such as The Tale of the Battle of the Neva , The Tale of the Battle of the Ice , The Tale of the Invasion of Tokhtamysh , and The Tale of the Death of Mikhail of Tver . Some of these tales have obvious parallels with Russian folklore and Orthodox hagiography . The chronicle contains a large number of claims not found in earlier sources. Some of these interpolations are thought to reflect
49-534: Was under German occupation from 29 November 1941 until 17 December 1941. On the night of 8–9 November 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War , Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Aleksin Chemical Plant —a subsidiary of state corporation Rostec —about 190 km (120 mi) south of Moscow, causing a series of explosions and fires at the plant which manufactures ammunition and explosives for
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