En Name: | Malaya Loknya |
Ru Name: | Малая Локня |
Coordinates: | 51.3325°N 35.2275°W |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Kursk Oblast#Russia |
Inhabloc Cat: | Village |
Adm Selsoviet Jur: | Maloloknyansky |
Pop 2010Census: | 799 |
Federal Subject: | Kursk Oblast |
Adm District Jur: | Sudzhansky District |
Malaya Loknya (ru|Малая Локня|link=no) is a rural locality (a selo) in Sudzhansky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of the Maloloknyansky Selsoviet.
The village is located on the left bank of the Malaya Loknya River (a left tributary of the Loknya in the Psel basin), directly across from smaller villages of,, and . Malaya Loknya is located 13.5 km from the Russia–Ukraine border.
The names of the streets in the village are Zelenaya, Kubareva, Molodezhnaya, Pugacheva T.D., Sotnitskaya, and Stantsionnaya.[1]
On 8 August 2024, Malaya Loknya was mostly captured by Ukrainian forces as part of the August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion.[2] Russian forces continued to hold out in the area surrounding the locality's women's prison[3] [4] before managing to retreat from the village around 25 August 2024 despite encirclement.[5]