Lev Tolstoy (rural locality)

Lev Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Толсто́й) is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Lev-Tolstovsky District of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia.

Astapovo railway station, built in 1891 on the intersection of the Kozlov–Volovo and Moscow–Yelets routes,[citation needed] was named after a nearby selo of Astapovo (Аста́пово), which was founded later than the mid-17th century.

[6] The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy fell ill at the Astapovo station and died here on November 20, 1910.

[6] To commemorate this event, the station was renamed Lva Tolstogo (Льва Толсто́го) in 1918.

[6] In 1932, the name of the station and of the settlement was changed to its modern form.