Imeni Karla Libknekhta, Kursk Oblast

Imeni Karla Libknekhta (Russian: имени Карла Либкнехта) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Kurchatovsky District of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Seym River.

[4] The village of Peny (Пены) was settled four hundred years ago on the banks of the Penk River.

In 1930, it was granted urban-type settlement status and named after Karl Liebknecht, a German Communist.

There is a sugar mill, a machine-building factory, a railway station and an important railway line linking Kursk with Ukraine.

This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978, which is partially in the public domain.