Dolgovo (russian: Долгово) is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...

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) in Kubenskoye Rural Settlement,

Vologodsky District Vologodsky District (russian: Волого́дский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipalLaw #1112-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast and borders ...

Vologda Oblast Vologda Oblast ( rus, Вологодская область, p=vəlɐˈɡotskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, r=Vologodskaya oblast, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is Vologda. The Oblast has a population of 1,202,444 ...

, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002.Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004. The village was originally named Bogoyavlensky after a

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bishop, but was later renamed in honor of

Pyotr Dolgov Pyotr Ivanovich Dolgov (russian: Пётр Иванович Долгов; 21 February 1920 – 1 November 1962) (Hero of the Soviet Union) was a colonel in the Soviet Airborne forces. Dolgov died while carrying out a high-altitude parachute jump fro ...

, a Soviet colonel in the

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, who perished after a fatal accident during a high-altitude

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jump in 1962. He was born into a family of farmers in this village.

Geography

The distance to

Vologda Vologda ( rus, Вологда, p=ˈvoləɡdə) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda (river), Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. ...

is 36 km, to Kubenskoye is 6 km. Kulemesovo, Midyanovo, Ileykino, Korotkovo, Nastasyino, Morino, Sopyatino, Okulovo are the nearest rural localities.

References

Rural localities in Vologodsky District {{Vologodsky-geo-stub