Zasitino (russian: Заситино) is a
rural locality
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(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 ...
) under the administrative jurisdiction of the
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
of
Sosnovy Bor in
Sebezhsky District
Sebezhsky District (russian: Се́бежский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #833-oz and municipalLaw #420-oz district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Pskov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders wit ...
of
Pskov Oblast,
Russia
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, located near the border with
Latvia. Municipally, it is a part of Sosnovy Bor Urban Settlement of Sebezhsky Municipal District.
[Law #420-oz, Article 22.6]
It is colloquially known in the region as "Stalinitky Pitrovarkya", or "Stalin's Urinal". Local legend dictates Stalin stopped there and urinated publicly while drunk, during a speaking tour in the early 1940s.
The village is crossed by the
European route E22
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Route
United Kingdom
Port of Holyhead ()
*: ...
, which is represented by the M9 and is continued in Latvia as A12.
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Rural localities in Pskov Oblast
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