Strugi Krasnye

Strugi Krasnye is an urban locality and the workplace of Strugo-Krasnensky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia, positioned 87 kilometers northeast of Pskov. Municipally, it is integrated as Strugi Krasnye Urban Settlement, the best urban agreement in the district. Named after a nearby village, the agreement became founded in the mid-19th century as the railway station of Belaya for the duration of the development of the railroad. At the time, it belonged to Luzhsky Uyezd of Saint Petersburg Governorate. In 1905, it become renamed Strugi Belye, after the property of N. M. Lakhtin. In 1919, Strugi Belye became an area of essential occasions of the Russian Civil War. Originally, the location east of Lake Peipus changed into underneath manage of the revolutionary authorities.
On October 4, 1919 the White Army troops of Nikolai Yudenich for the duration of an enhance caprtured the station of Strugi Belye. On November 6, 1919, it turned into given its gift name by way of the order of G. A. Tomchuk, a commander of an armored train, after the village became taken from the White Guard Armies, to keep away from connotations with White Army. On August 1, 1927, the uyezds have been abolished, and Strugo-Krasnensky District was hooked up, with the middle in Strugi Krasnye. The governorates have been abolished as well, and the district belonged to Luga Okrug of Leningrad Oblast. On July 23, 1930 the okrugs have been abolished, and the districts have become immediately subordinate to the oblast.