Lev Tolstoy (russian: Лев Толсто́й) is a
rural locality
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(a settlement) and 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 is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
of
Lev-Tolstovsky District
Lev-Tolstovsky District (russian: Лев-Толсто́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #382-OZ and municipalLaw #114-OZ district (raion), one of the eighteen in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The ...
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
Lipe ...
, Russia.
[Law #382-OZ] Population:
History
Astapovo railway station, built in 1891 on the intersection of the
Kozlov–
Volovo and
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
–
Yelets
Yelets, or Elets (russian: Еле́ц), is a city in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Bystraya Sosna River, which is a tributary of the Don. Population:
History
Yelets is the oldest center of the Central Black Earth Region. It was me ...
routes, was named after a nearby ''
selo'' of Astapovo (), which was founded later than the mid-17th century.
[Pospelov, p. 29] The name derives from the masculine
first name Ostap.
The Russian writer
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
fell ill at the Astapovo station and died here on November 7, 1910.
To commemorate this event, the station was renamed Lva Tolstogo () in 1918.
In 1932, the name of the station and of the settlement was changed to its modern form.
References
Notes
Sources
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*Е. М. Поспелов (Ye. M. Pospelov). "Имена городов: вчера и сегодня (1917–1992). Топонимический словарь." (''City Names: Yesterday and Today (1917–1992). Toponymic Dictionary.'') Москва, "Русские словари", 1993.
External links
Unofficial website of Lev Tolstoy settlement
{{Authority control
Rural localities in Lipetsk Oblast
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