Lavrovo (russian: Лавро́во) is a rural locality (a

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) in

Rameshkovsky District Rameshkovsky District (russian: Ра́мешковский райо́н) is an administrative and municipalLaw #4-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the eastern central part of the oblast and borde ...

Tver Oblast Tver Oblast (russian: Тверска́я о́бласть, ''Tverskaya oblast'', ), from 1935 to 1990 known as Kalinin Oblast (), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. It was named after Mikhai ...

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, located east of Rameshki, the

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of the district. Within the framework of municipal divisions, it is a part of Aleshino Rural Settlement of Rameshkovsky Municipal District. Its estimated population in 2008 was 74. The village was first mentioned in the 18th century as a part of the Karelian ''

volost Volost ( rus, во́лость, p=ˈvoləsʲtʲ; ) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe. In earlier East Slavic history, ''volost'' was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz, a principality; either as an absolute ...

'' of the Tsar. Later, it became a part of the landed properties of the imperial family ('' udel''). In 1709, the village population was 19 males living in six households; twenty houses in the village stood empty. In 1859, the village was a part of Bezhetsky Uyezd of

Tver Governorate Tver Governorate (russian: Тверская губерния, ''Tverskaya guberniya'') was an administrative division (a ''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 ...

and had a population of 294 (149 males and 145 females) comprising thirty-six households.Тверская губерния. Список населённых мест по сведениям 1859 года. Под ред. И. Вильсона. Центральный статистический комитет министерства внутренних дел, Санкт-Петербург 1862. By 1887, the population increased to 390 (190 males and 200 females) comprising seventy-seven households. The population consisted mostly of the

Karelians Karelians ( krl, karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset, Finnish: , sv, kareler, karelare, russian: Карелы) are a Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russi ...

and former ''udel'' peasants. Thirty-four males were literate, and seven were in military service. In 1894, a

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was opened in the village. By 1897, the population of the village increased to 420, of whom 410 were Karelians. Lavrovsky ''

Selsoviet Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...

'' was established in 1918 and existed until 1959. In 1930, "Karelsky Rassvet" (lit. "Karelian Dawn")

collective farm Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member ...

was established in the village. In 1936, the population of Lavrovo was 598 people comprising 135 households. Of those, 122 households with 541 people were employed by the collective farm. There was also a windmill, a facility for production of the vegetable fats and oils, and two

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s. Educational facilities included an elementary school taught in Karelian and a village reading room. In 1950, the village collective farm was merged with "Pobeda" collective farm in Pustoramenka. At the 1989 Census, the village population was 48, of whom 35 were Karelians and 13

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. By 1996, the population increased to 105 people in 57 households. In 2001, the population was 96, living in 49 houses; additionally 41 houses were used mostly as dachas. There is a post office, a basic medical facility, and a store in the village.

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