Batetsky (russian: Батецкий) is a
rural locality
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(a settlement of rural type) and the
administrative center
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of
Batetsky District
Batetsky District (russian: Батецкий район) is an administrativeLaw #559-OZ and municipalLaw #372-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Luz ...
,
Novgorod Oblast
Novgorod Oblast (russian: Новгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Novgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Veliky Novgorod. Some of the oldest Russian cities, including ...
,
Russia
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, located in the northwest of the
oblast
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, on the banks of the
Udrayka River (a right
tributary
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of the
Luga). It also serves as the administrative center of Batetskoye Settlement, one of the three settlements into which the district is
administratively divided.
Municipally, it is the administrative center of Batetskoye Rural Settlement in Batetsky Municipal District. Population:
History
Batetsky was founded in 1891 as a settlement serving the station on the railway between
St. Petersburg and
Vitebsk
Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...
. It took its name from the nearby village of Batetsko, or Batetskaya. In 1916, the railway connecting
Novgorod
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and
Luga also passed through Batetsky.
At the time, the station was a part of
Luzhsky Uyezd Luzhsky Uyezd (russian: Лужский уезд) was one of the eight subdivisions of the Saint Petersburg Governorate of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Luga. Luzhsky Uyezd was located in the southwestern part of the governorate (in the southw ...
of
Petrograd Governorate
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.
On October 1, 1927, Batetsky became the administrative center of newly established Batetsky District in
Luga Okrug Luga may refer to:
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*Luga (river), a river in Novgorod and Le ...
of
Leningrad Oblast
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. On July 23, 1930, the okrugs were abolished, and the districts were directly subordinated to the oblast. Between August, 1941 and February 12, 1944, Batetsky was occupied by
German
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**Ge ...
troops. On July 5, 1944, Batetsky District was transferred to newly established Novgorod Oblast.
On February 1, 1963 the district was abolished in the course of Khrushchyov administrative reform. On December 30, 1966 Batetsky District was re-established.
Economy
Industry
There are small-scale enterprises of timber industry and food industry.
Transportation
Batetsky is located at the crossing of two railroads: One, in the northern-southern direction, connects
St. Petersburg with
Velikiye Luki
Velikiye Luki ( rus, Вели́кие Лу́ки, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪjə ˈlukʲɪ; lit. ''great meanders''. Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-П ...
via
Dno
Dno (russian: Дно) is a town and the administrative center of Dnovsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located at the intersection of the Pskov– Bologoye and St. Petersburg–Vitebsk railways, east of Pskov, the administrative cen ...
, and another one, approximately in the southeastern-northwestern direction, connects Veliky Novgorod with
Luga.
There is a road network inside the district, connecting Batetsky, in particular, with Veliky Novgorod, Luga,
Shimsk
Shimsk ( rus, Шимск, p=ʂɨmsk) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Shimsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Shimskoye Urban Settlement, the only urban settlement ...
, and
Soltsy
Soltsy (russian: Сольцы́) is a town and the administrative center of Soletsky District in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Shelon River, southwest of Veliky Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. Populat ...
.
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