Batetsky is a
rural locality (a settlement of rural type) and the
administrative center of
Batetsky District,
Novgorod Oblast,
Russia, 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.