Lev Tolstoy () is a
rural locality (a settlement) and the
administrative center
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of
Lev-Tolstovsky District of
Lipetsk Oblast
Lipetsk Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Lipetsk. As of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census, its population was&n ...
, Russia.
[Law #382-OZ] Population: Until 1932 it was known as Astapovo.
History
Astapovo railway station, built in 1891 on the intersection of the
Kozlov–
Volovo and
Moscow
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–
Yelets
Yelets or Elets () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Bystraya Sosna River, which is a tributary of the Don River, Russia, Don. Population:
History
Yelets is the oldest center of the ...
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
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
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Acronyms
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Ostap.
The Russian writer
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...
fell ill at the Astapovo station and died here on November 20, 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
*
*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
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Rural localities in Lipetsk Oblast
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Former urban-type settlements of Lipetsk Oblast