Kratovo
Кра́тово
Urban-type settlement
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Kratovo is located in Russia
Kratovo
Kratovo
Location of Kratovo
Kratovo is located in Moscow Oblast
Kratovo
Kratovo
Kratovo (Moscow Oblast)
Coordinates: 55°36′N 38°09′E / 55.600°N 38.150°E / 55.600; 38.150
CountryRussia
Federal subjectMoscow Oblast
Administrative districtRamensky District
Founded1898Edit this on Wikidata
Population
 (2010 Census)[1]
 • Total8,277
 • Estimate 
(2018)[2]
8,937 (+8%)
DemonymKratovian
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[3])
Postal code(s)[4]
140130Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID46648157051

Kratovo (Russian: Кра́тово) is an urban locality (a suburban (dacha) settlement) in Ramensky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 40 kilometers (25 mi) southeast of Moscow. Population: 8,277 (2010 Census);[1] 6,855 (2002 Census);[5] 6,295 (1989 Census).[6]

Zoe Williams of The Guardian wrote that Kratovo "resembles a Russian Guildford with high hedges, gigantic trees, the careful, botanical planning of expensive privacy."[7] and that the locality "has a reputation for being full of former KGB safe houses, though I couldn’t find one Moscovite who would vouch for that."[7]

History

On 10 June 2017, a 50-year-old man opened fire on passers-by in the settlement, killing four people.[citation needed]

Notable people

Yuriy Borzakovskiy, who took home the gold in the men's 800-meter run at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, was born in Kratovo. Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Prokofiev had dachas here, and Soviet dissident Valeriya Novodvorskaya also spent time in a rented dacha here.[8][9]

George Blake, famous Cold War spy [b.1922] lives in a dacha in Kratovo.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  2. ^ "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  4. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  5. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (21 May 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  6. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
  7. ^ a b c Williams, Zoe (2017-12-08). "'A good traitor': the extraordinary life of George Blake, the spy who went into the cold". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  8. ^ "Валерия Новодворская – между весталкой и гейшей". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Новодворская Валерия Ильинична". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.

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