Seltso (russian: Сельцо́, lit. ''little village'') is a

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, located on the

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northwest of

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. Population: 17,600 (1970).

History

Seltso was granted

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

status in 1938 and that of a town in 1990.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Seltsovsky Urban Administrative Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Law #13-Z As a municipal division, Seltsovsky Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated as Seltso Urban Okrug.Law #69-Z

History

Founded in 1876 in connection with the construction of Rigo-Oryol railway (built-station Selco Gorodtsov). The first industrial plants in steel mills Seltso Kuchkina, Dreyscheva, Kitaeva. From 1886 to 1914 he worked in the Selto small metallurgical plant Guboninsky consisting of the foundry and the forge. At the beginning of the 20th century in the hamlet operated two

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s and a

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mill, 10 sawmills, soap factories. In 1905, the

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post was established for the prevention of disorder or crime in Seltso.

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=July 2012 Cities and towns in Bryansk Oblast Cities and towns built in the Soviet Union Oryol Governorate 1938 establishments in the Soviet Union