Lenino (russian: Ле́нино) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
(''
selo'') in
Lipetsky District of
Lipetsk Oblast
Lipetsk Oblast (russian: Липецкая область, Lipetskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Lipetsk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,173,513.
Geography
Lipets ...
,
Russia
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, located on the right bank of the
Voronezh River.
In the 17th century peasants of boyars
Romanovs founded the village (''selo'') of Romanovo-Gorodische. In 1614, boyar Ivan Romanov built a castle (''ostrog'') here, and the village became known as the town of Romanov.
In the 18th century, the town was transformed into the village of Romanovo. In 1920, it was renamed Lenino (in honor of
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...
).
Plans exist to build a
satellite town of Romanov near the south-western border of
Lipetsk
Lipetsk ( rus, links=no, Липецк, p=ˈlʲipʲɪtsk), also romanized as Lipeck, is a city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh River in the Don basin, southeast of Moscow. Populatio ...
. The territory of this planned town, at approximately with a population of 130,000, will include the territory of Lenino.
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Rural localities in Lipetsk Oblast
Lipetsky Uyezd