[5] Zoe Williams of The Guardian wrote that Kratovo "resembles a Russian Guildford with high hedges, gigantic trees, the careful, botanical planning of expensive privacy.

"[6] and that the locality "has a reputation for being full of former KGB safe houses, though I couldn’t find one Moscovite who would vouch for that.

"[6] On 10 June 2017, a 50-year-old man opened fire on passers-by in the settlement, killing five people.

Yuriy Borzakovskiy, who won gold in the men's 800-meter race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, was born in Kratovo.

[7][8] George Blake, a famous Cold War spy, lived in a dacha in Kratovo.