Rakitnoye

 town, district center

Urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast, Russia and the administrative center of Rakityansky District and Rakitnoye urban settlement. Population: 10,048 (2021 Census). Located on the banks of the Dnieper River, Rakitnoye Basin. Final railway station Zinaidino on a branch of Gotnya Railway Station. Passenger movement there.
With the foundation settlement Rakitnoe (1652), called on the name of the same river, the surrounding land belonged to Kochubey's family, and, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov who was associate of Peter I. In 1728 the settlement was transferred to Prince Yusupov GD and until 1917 was the name of the Prince Yusupov control center in Kursk, Voronezh, Kharkov and Poltava governorates. Status of urban-type settlements since 1975.