Vatutino () is a rural locality (a selo) in

Valuysky District Valuysky District () is an administrative district ( raion), one of the twenty-one in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.Law #248 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Valuysky Municipal District.Law #159 It is located in the south of the oblast. ...

Belgorod Oblast Belgorod Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Belgorod. , the population is 1,540,486. History During the Princely ...

, Russia. The population was 27 as of 2010. There is 1 street. The locality is named after

Nikolai Vatutin Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin (; 16 December 1901 – 15 April 1944) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR as th ...

(1901–1944), a Russian military commander of the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II ...

. It had been known as Chepukhino () for centuries until 1968.

Geography

Vatutino is located 23 km northeast of

Valuyki Valuyki () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localities *Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast, a town in Belgorod Oblast Rural localities * Valuyki, Moscow Oblast, a village in Teryayevskoye Rural Settlement of Volokolamsky Distric ...

(the district's administrative centre) by road. Voronovka is the nearest rural locality.Расстояние от Ватутина до Валуйков
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References

Rural localities in Valuysky District Valuysky Uyezd {{BelgorodOblast-geo-stub