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Batetsky (rural locality)
Batetsky is a rural locality (a settlement of rural type) and the administrative center of Batetsky DistrictNovgorod OblastRussia, located in the northwest of the oblast, on the banks of the Udrayka River (a right tributary of the Luga). It also serves as the administrative center of Batetskoye Settlement, one of the three settlements into which the district is administratively divided. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Batetskoye Rural Settlement in Batetsky Municipal District. Population:

History
Batetsky was founded in 1891 as a settlement serving the station on the railway between St. Petersburg and Vitebsk. It took its name from the nearby village of Batetsko, or Batetskaya. In 1916, the railway connecting Novgorod and Luga also passed through Batetsky. At the time, the station was a part of Luzhsky Uyezd of Petrograd Governorate.

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