Shchekino

a city under oblast jurisdiction and the administrative center of Shchekino Raion, Tula Oblast, RSFSR. Situated on the Moscow-Simferopol’ highway. Railroad station on the Tula-Orel line, 22 km south of Tula. Population, 72,000 (1977).

Coal is mined near Shchekino, in the Moscow Basin. The city’s chemical industry includes the production association Azot and a synthetic-fiber plant, both located in the settlement of Pervomaiskii, which is under the jurisdiction of the Shchekino city soviet. Shchekino has an experimental machine shop for the production of entry-driving mining equipment and a plant for the repair of industrial equipment. Shchekino’s construction-materials enterprises include a pilot plant and the plant Kislotoupor. The city has food enterprises as well as a chemical engineering technicum, an economics technicum, and a museum of local lore.