Yudino (Velikoustyugsky District)
Yudino (Russian: Юдино) is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Yudinskoye Rural Settlement, Velikoustyugsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 424 as of 2002.[2] There are 38 streets.[3] HistoryOn 14 August 1918, the Soviet of the People's Commissars under Vladimir Lenin decreed to rename Krasnaya Gorka to Yudino, after the Russian Civil War Hero Jānis Judiņš[4]- a commander of the Third Latvian Rifle Brigade (part of the Latvian Riflemen,[5] he was killed at the Krasnaya Gorka railway station whilst fighting the Czech Legion and the KomUch People's Army. It was the first inhabited locality, renamed by Soviet power.[6] In the Yaroslavl region, near the village of Yudino Chudino. in Karelia, lakes Chudovo and Yudovo are nearby as in the fairy tale miracle-Yudo[7] GeographyYudino is located 3 km northeast of Veliky Ustyug (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kalashovo is the nearest rural locality.[8] References
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