Kotovskoye
Coordinates: 52°32′N 41°47′E / 52.533°N 41.783°E
Kotovskoye (Russian: Котовское) is a rural locality (selo) in Kotovsky Selsoviet of Rasskazovsky District of Tambov Oblast, Russia.[1]
The village was founded in 1744 as Kobylenka (Кобыленка).[2] According to the Second Audit of 1744, the village was settled by the migrants from nearby Koptevo and Zderevaya.[2] According to the Audit, the village population was 152.[2]
In the 1950s, the village was given its present name in honor of Grigory Kotovsky,[2] a prominent Soviet military leader and communist activist.
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Тамбовская областная Дума. Закон №72-З от 21 июня 1996 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тамбовской области», в ред. Закона №544-З от 11 июня 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в статью 7 Закона Тамбовской области "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тамбовской области"». Опубликован: "Тамбовская жизнь", №131, 1996 г. (Tambov Oblast Duma. Law #72-Z of June 21, 1996 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tambov Oblast, as amended by the Law #544-Z of June 11, 2015 On Amending Article 7 of the Law of Tambov Oblast "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tambov Oblast". ).