Fatezh (Russian: Фате́ж) is a town and the administrative center of Fatezhsky District in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located on the Usozha River 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of Kursk, the administrative center of the oblast.

[9] It was founded as a village in the 17th century and granted town status in 1779.

[11] During World War II, Fatezh was occupied by German troops from October 22, 1941 to February 7, 1943.

[1] As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Fatezh is incorporated within Fatezhsky Municipal District as Fatezh Urban Settlement.

[3] In Vasily Narezhny's 1814 novel A Russian Gil Blas (Российский Жильблаз), the picaresque hero leaves his home village in Kursk Governorate to go to Moscow; after two weeks of traveling he reaches a magnificent city he is sure must be Moscow, but when he asks a passing policeman it turns out to be Fatezh.