Kantemirovka
Kantemirovka is an urban locality in Kantemirovsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia. Population:
Founded in 18 century and named after its landowners Dimitrie Cantemir and Constantine Cantemir of the Moldavian former ruling Cantemirești family who, to free their land from Ottoman empire, sided with Russia's Peter I's army, and, when the Russian side lost, moved to Russia and were included in Russian nobility. Dmitry was a philosopher and writer, as well as a musician, and his son Antioch a prominent Russian author.
In 1942 there was a World War II heavy fighting for the town's railway station, with the Soviet Red Army tank units finally freeing it from Nazi Germany troops on December 19. In honour of this victory the derivative adjective name Kantemirovskaya was awarded to the 4th Guards Tank Division, and 10 years later a street in Leningrad was renamed after the victory; in Moscow a was named after the division, and a metro station - after the street; in Leningrad its street gave name to a large bridge built in 1979-82 at its western end, and in 21st century Saint Petersburg a plan to build its metro Ring Line provides for a station on the street near the bridge named Kantemirovskaya as well.
