| En Name: | Kratovo |
| Ru Name: | Кра́тово |
| Map Label Position: | bottom |
| Federal Subject: | Moscow Oblast |
| Adm District Jur: | Ramensky District |
| Inhabloc Cat: | Urban-type settlement |
| Pop 2010Census: | 8277 |
| Population Demonym: | Kratovian |
Kratovo (Russian: Кра́тово) is an urban locality (a suburban (dacha) settlement) in Ramensky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 40km (30miles) southeast of Moscow. Population:
Zoe Williams of The Guardian wrote that Kratovo "resembles a Russian Guildford with high hedges, gigantic trees, the careful, botanical planning of expensive privacy."[1] 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."[1]
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. Sergei Eisenstein and Sergei Prokofiev had dachas here, and Soviet dissident Valeriya Novodvorskaya also spent time in a rented dacha here.[2] [3]
George Blake, a famous Cold War spy, lived in a dacha in Kratovo.[1]