Dedinovo
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Dedinovo is a village
Types of settlements in Russia
The classification system of the types of inhabited localities in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared to the classification systems in other countries.-Modern classification in Russia:...

 in Lukhovitsky District
Lukhovitsky District
Lukhovitsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 38 in Moscow Oblast, Russia....

 of Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast , or Podmoskovye , is a federal subject of Russia . Its area, at , is relatively small compared to other federal subjects, but it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and, with the 2010 population of 7,092,941, is the second most populous federal subject...

, Russia
Russia
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, located on both sides of the Oka River
Oka River
Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...

 12 km (6.5 mi) north of Lukhovitsy
Lukhovitsy
Lukhovitsy is a town and the administrative center of Lukhovitsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River southeast of Moscow. Population:...

 and 110 km (65 mi) south-west of Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. Population: 3,615.

The population is predominantly employed in agriculture. Carrot
Carrot
The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist. It has a crisp texture when fresh...

s and potato
Potato
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

es are the main crops grown on the village's fields.

There is a convenience store, a movie theater, a post office, and a bookstore. A ferry/bus-station of the Lukhovitsy–Liski
Liski
Liski is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population: Liski was founded as Novaya Pokrovka in 1571 and renamed Svoboda in 1943, and after a period again as Liski, the city was renamed Georgiu-Dezh in 1965 for the Romanian communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, before returning to Liski again...

 road is located here.

It was known as one of the biggest centers of riverine shipbuilding in the 17th-century Russia. One of the first Russian military vessels, the Russian frigate Oryol
Russian frigate Oryol
The frigate Oryol was the first Russian-built warship, commissioned by Tsar Alexis I to protect Russian trading ships on the Caspian Sea. The Oryol was built between 1667 and 1669 by the developing shipyard in Dedinovo, on the Oka River....

, was built here in 1669.
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