Gdov (Russian: Гдов) is a town and the administrative center of Gdovsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the river Gdovka, just 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) from its outflow into Lake Peipus.

On May 15, 1919, the detachment under command of Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (subordinate to General Aleksandr Rodzyanko) captured Gdov and the whole uyezd thus came under control by the White Army troops of Nikolai Yudenich.

[15] On August 1, 1927, the uyezds and governorates were abolished and Gdovsky District, with the administrative center in Gdov, was established as a part of Luga Okrug of Leningrad Oblast.

Most of the devastation occurred just before the Nazi retreat on January 28, 1944, when the 37th Estonian Police Battalion, part of the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS,[18] set wooden buildings on fire and used explosives on stone structures.

Among the destroyed historical buildings was the unique ensemble of two 15th and 16th-century churches that survived the Bolshevik anti-religion campaigns.

In 1993 an exact copy of St. Dmitry Solounskiy church was built at its original location at the Gdov Kremlin, financed exclusively by crowdfunding.

Later a new line from Gdov to Slantsy and Veimarn was constructed and used for passenger and cargo connections to Leningrad.

[22] Between the 1950s and 1980s an unpaved airfield in Gdov[23] was used for commuter air transit to the neighbouring towns of Slantsy, Pskov and Tartu aboard an Antonov An-2 passenger biplane.

There are daily bus services to Pskov, Slantsy, Saint Petersburg, and neighbouring villages.

During World War II Gdov briefly hosted the headquarters of the Chudskoye Lake Flotilla (1941).

[25] Visits to the zone or transit through it are subject to the Frontier Regime Regulations set by the FSB that stipulate cases where permits are required or where holding a passport is enough.