Dolgovo () is a

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) in Kubenskoye Rural Settlement,

Vologodsky District Vologodsky District () is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipalLaw #1112-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast and borders with Ust-Kubinsky and Sokolsky Districts in ...

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, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002.Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004. The village was originally named Bogoyavlensky after a

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bishop, but was later renamed in honor of

Pyotr Dolgov Pyotr Ivanovich Dolgov (; 21 February 1920 – 1 November 1962) (Hero of the Soviet Union) was a colonel in the Soviet airborne forces. Dolgov died while carrying out a high-altitude parachute jump from a Volga balloon gondola.Dolgov's year of d ...

, a Soviet colonel in the

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, who perished after a fatal accident during a high-altitude

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jump in 1962. He was born into a family of farmers in this village.

Geography

The distance to

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is 36 km, to Kubenskoye is 6 km. Kulemesovo, Midyanovo, Ileykino, Korotkovo, Nastasyino, Morino, Sopyatino, Okulovo are the nearest rural localities.

References

Rural localities in Vologodsky District {{Vologodsky-geo-stub