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Tarutino

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Tarutino 

an urban-type settlement and administrative center of Tarutino Raion, Odessa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Situated 7 km from the Berezino railroad station on the Bessarabskaia-Artsiz line and 198 km from Odessa. Tarutino has a food-processing combine, a cheese plant, and a winery.


Tarutino 

a village in Zhukovsko Raion, Kaluga Oblast. During the Patriotic War of 1812 the Tarutino camp of the Russian troops commanded by field marshal M. I. Kutuzov was located near the village in September and October. On Oct. 6 (18), 1812, a battle took place north of Tarutino on the Chernishne River. There is a monument in the village to the Russian troops. Tarutino is also the site of the Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812.



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The historians consider that, next to the battle of Borodino and the occupation of Moscow by the enemy and its destruction by fire, the most important episode of the war of 1812 was the movement of the Russian army from the Ryazana to the Kaluga road and to the Tarutino camp- the so-called flank march across the Krasnaya Pakhra River.
 
 
 
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