Krakolye (; ; ; ) was a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

) in Ust-Luzhsky Selsoviet of

Kingiseppsky District Kingiseppsky District (, ) is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #81-oz district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Leningrad Oblast, seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast ...

Leningrad Oblast Leningrad Oblast (, ; ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). The oblast has an area of and a population of 2,000,997 (2021 Russian census, 2021 Census); up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Russian census ...

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, located just south of

Ust-Luga Ust-Luga (, Votic: ''Laugasuu'', both meaning 'mouth of the Luga', , ) is a settlement and railway station in Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, near the Estonian border, situated on the Luga River near its entry into the Luga ...

and about southwest of the Ust-Luga Harbour. It is now a part of the settlement of

. Population: 110 (2007 est.)."Административно-территориальное деление Ленинградской области". — СПб., 2007, с. 97.

History

Krakolye was first mentioned in

Joan Blaeu Joan Blaeu (; 23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673), also called Johannes Blaeu, was a Dutch cartographer and the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company. Blaeu is most notable for his map published in 1648, which was the fir ...

's Livonian Atlas in 1654 as .Карта Ливонии из большого атласа Блау. 1654 г.
/ref> It was one of the two villages where the

Votic language Votic or Votian (, ) , is a Finnic language spoken by the Vots of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye (now part of Ust-Luga) and Luzhitsy, two villages in Kingiseppsky District in ...

was still spoken; the other was Luzhitsy in the

. The village was merged into

effective October 24, 2008.

Notable people

Votic teacher and linguist Dmitri Tsvetkov (1890–1930) was born in Krakolye.

References

{{Use mdy dates, date=November 2013 Geography of Leningrad Oblast Kingiseppsky District