Kratovo, Russia
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Kratovo (Template:Langx) is an urban locality (a suburban (dacha) settlement) in Ramensky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Moscow. Population: Template:Ru-census2010 Template:Replace (2002 Census);[1] Template:Replace (1989 Soviet census).[2]
Zoe Williams of The Guardian wrote that Kratovo "resembles a Russian Guildford with high hedges, gigantic trees, the careful, botanical planning of expensive privacy."[3] and that the locality "has a reputation for being full of former KGB safe houses, though I couldn’t find one Moscovite who would vouch for that."[3]
History
On 10 June 2017, a 50-year-old man opened fire on passers-by in the settlement, killing five people.
Notable people
Yuriy Borzakovskiy, who won gold in the men's 800-meter race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, was born in Kratovo. Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Prokofiev had dachas here, and Soviet dissident Valeriya Novodvorskaya also spent time in a rented dacha here.[4][5]
George Blake, a famous Cold War spy, lived in a dacha in Kratovo[3] as well as State Duma member Viktor Ilyukhin.
References
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