Korotoyak (russian: Коротояк) 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 ...

(a '' selo'') in

Ostrogozhsky District Ostrogozhsky District (russian: Острого́жский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #87-OZ and municipalLaw #88-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area ...

Voronezh Oblast Voronezh Oblast (russian: Воронежская область, Voronezhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Voronezh. Its population was 2,308,792 as of the 2021 Census. Geography V ...

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,Law #87-OZ located on the right bank of the

Don River The Don ( rus, Дон, p=don) is the fifth-longest river in Europe. Flowing from Central Russia to the Sea of Azov in Southern Russia, it is one of Russia's largest rivers and played an important role for traders from the Byzantine Empire. Its ...

. Population: 1,904 (2010). It was established in 1642 as one of the forts in the Belgorod Defensive Line. The name is derived from the Korotoyachka River which enters the Don nearby. Korotoyak was incorporated as a town in 1779. Some of the first Russian warships were built in Korotoyak ca. 1700.

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

is known to have inspected the local shipbuilding yard in person. Korotoyak served as the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

of an

uyezd An uezd (also spelled uyezd; rus, уе́зд, p=ʊˈjest), or povit in a Ukrainian context ( uk, повіт), or Kreis in Baltic-German context, was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Russian Empire, and the ea ...

until 1923 and the administrative center of a district in 1923–1961.

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* Rural localities in Ostrogozhsky District Korotoyaksky Uyezd Defunct towns in Russia Populated places established in 1642 1642 establishments in Russia {{Ostrogozhsky-geo-stub