Lev Tolstoy is a settlement

Types of settlements in Russia

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 in the northern part of Lipetsk Oblast

Lipetsk Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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. It is the administrative center of Lev-Tolstovsky District

Lev-Tolstovsky District

Lev-Tolstovsky District is an administrative district , one of the 18 in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia....

. Population: 8,800 (2005 est.); 9,035 (2002 Census

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); 9,139 (1989 Census

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).

The settlement was founded in 1890 as Astapovo railway station on the intersection of the Kozlov

Michurinsk

Michurinsk , before 1932—Kozlov , is the second most populous town in Tambov Oblast, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1635 at the northern end of the emerging Belgorod Line. A 25-km earthen wall was built eastward across the open steppe effectively blocking the Nogai Trail, a Tatar raiding...

–Volovo and Moscow

Moscow

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–Yelets

Yelets

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 routes. Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

, a famous Russian novelist, fell ill at Astapovo station and died here in 1910. In 1918 (1920 according to other sources) the station was renamed Lev Tolstoy.