Sovetsk

American

[sohv-yetsk, suh-vyetsk] / soʊvˈjɛtsk, sʌˈvjɛtsk /

noun

a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Kaliningrad on the Nemen River: formerly in East Prussia; peace treaty (1807) between France, Prussia, and Russia.

Sovetsk British

/ saˈvjɛtsk /

noun

Former name (until 1945): Tilsit. a town in W Russia, in the Kaliningrad Region on the Neman River: scene of the signing of the treaty (1807) between Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I; passed from East Prussia to the Soviet Union in 1945

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