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41 unusual facts about Moscow Oblast


100th Guards Rifle Division

The 15th Guards Airborne Division (Russian: 15-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная дивизия) was created in June 1943 and initially deployed in the cities of Ramenskoye and Zvenigorod.

Access road to Zhukovsky

The Access road to Zhukovsky from M5 highway (also known as the Access road from M5 highway to LII) is a road running across a distance of 9 km from settlement Imeni Telmana to the Zhukovsky.

Administrative divisions of Moscow

A part of Moscow Oblast's territory, including the towns of Troitsk, Moskovsky, and Shcherbinka, as well as parts of territories of Leninsky, Naro-Fominsky, and Podolsky Districts, has been transferred to Moscow on July 1, 2012.

Alexander Winterberger

Alexander Winterberger's photographic portrait by Sergey Lvovich Levitsky is housed at the State P. I. Tchaikovsky Memorial Museum at Klin, Russia.

Alexander Yakin

An actor in the theater-studio "Na Moskovskoy" in Chekhov.

In 2007 he graduated from the Troytskey secondary school in the city of Chekhov.

Alexius of Rome

Alexander Radishchev, in his Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (1790), refers to the story of St Alexis as sung by a blind soldier begging in Klin, near Moscow.

Alhaji Jeng

His outdoor personal best is also 5.80 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Zhukovskiy.

Bandy World Championship 1989

This was the 1st ever indoor championships, except for 2 matches in Krasnogorsk.

Bespyatovo

Bespyatovo, Zaraysky District, Moscow Oblast, a village in Gololobovskoye Rural Settlement of Zaraysky District

Dmitri Stratan

He played for two years in Slovenia, and one year in France, and lived for some time in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast, where he played for Shturm 2002.

Genri Koptev-Gomolov

Genri Nikolaevich Koptev-Gomolov (Russian: Генри Николаевич Коптев-Gomolov; was born 4 June 1926 in the town of Balashikha in the Moscow Oblast.

Hans-Joachim Born

When Riehl learned that H. J. Born and Karl Zimmer were being held in Krasnogorsk, in the main PoW camp for Germans with scientific degrees, Riehl arranged though Zavenyagin to have them sent to Ehlektrostal’.

Igor Leonidovich Kovalevsky

Kovalevsky worked at the scientific production association "Energy" (Korolev, Moscow region).

Inna Zhelannaya

Inna Zhelannaya was born in Moscow and spent her childhood years in Zelenograd, Moscow Oblast where she studied at a musical school and sang in a choir led by her mother, Alla Yosifovna.

Ivan Ozhogin

In 2007 he became a lead singer of the choir at the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery in Dzerzhinsky near Moscow.

Janeta Kerdikoshvili

Kerdikoshvili was to represented her country at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia on November 9, 2013 before withdrawing due to unexpected health problems.

Kurovsky

Kurovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the Town of Kurovskoye in Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Laboratory B in Sungul’

Also, immediately after World War II and extending into 1949, the Russians also had a large pool of German PoW scientists and highly skilled specialists from which to recruit; the main camp was at Krasnogorsk.

When Riehl learned that professional colleagues from the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Hirnforschung (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research) in Berlin, Hans-Joachim Born and Karl Zimmer, were being held in Krasnogorsk, in the main PoW camp for Germans with scientific degrees, Riehl arranged though Zavenyagin to have them sent to Ehlektrostal’.

Lola Lonli

In 1988, graduated from 8th class of secondary school #2 in Novo-Sinkovo village in Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast.

Moscow metropolitan area

Moscow metropolitan area includes the city of Moscow, a ring of cities annexed to it and administered within (Balashikha, Korolyov, Krasnogorsk, Khimki, Mytishchi and Zelenograd), as well as large nearby towns with population of over 100,000 citizens (Reutov, Zheleznodorozhny, Podolsk and Lubertsy, to name a few) that fall under regional administration.

Moscow Okrug

Moscow Okrug, Moscow Oblast (1929–1930), a former administrative division of Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Moskovsky Settlement

It was established in 2005 as Moskovsky urban settlement in Leninsky municipal raion of Moscow Oblast and now it consists of the town of Moskovsky and 8 other inhabited localities of abolished Moskovsky rural district.

Novica Veličković

Veličković was a member of the U20 Serbian national teams in 2005 and 2006 in Chekhov and İzmir respectively.

Oskar Wolkerstorfer

On the same day he also received the Wound Badge in Silver for a wound received on 24 November 1941, when he was shot in the stomach while removing explosives from a bridge near Istra.

Reichsfilmarchiv

6,400 selected films eventually found their way into the Soviet film archive in Krasnogorsk near Moscow and from there into Soviet cinemas, where some of them were still showing up to 1956.

Rizhsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway

The stations the direction serves are located in Moscow, as well as in Krasnogorsky, Istrinsky, Volokolamsky, and Shakhovskoy Districts of Moscow Oblast.

Roman Shirokov

Before signing for Zenit, Shirokov played for FC Khimki, Rubin Kazan, Saturn Moscow Oblast, FC Vidnoye, FC Istra, Torpedo-ZIL Moscow and CSKA Moscow's farm club.

Savyolovsky railway station

There is a bus terminal, in front of the station, serving Dmitrov, Dubna, Iksha, Kalyazin, Kashin, Kimry, Laryovo, Taldom and several other destinations north of Moscow.

Shuvoyka River

The villages of Ryzhoye, Curbatikha, Shuvoye, Gridino, Ustyanovo, Yuryatino are situated on the Shuvoyka.

Skolkovo innovation center

The Skolkovo Innovation Center is a planned high technology business area being built at Skolkovo near Moscow, Russia.

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is a private research university located near Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, in the close vicinity of the capital city of Moscow, Russia.

Tashkent Aviation Production Association

In the second place, it was founded in 1932 in the city of Khimki, Moscow region as the 84 Repairing Factory of GVF (Civil Aviation Fleet), later - the Aviation Factory named after V. P. Chkalov.

Thomas Marshburn

From February 1996 to May 1997 he served as a flight surgeon for NASA personnel deployed to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, Star City, Russia, followed by work in the Center for Flight Control in Korolyov, Russia, in support of the NASA Expedition 4 to the Mir Space Station.

Vadim Evseev

By the start of the 2007 Russian Premier League he was in newly-relegated to the First Division Torpedo Moscow, but failed to accommodate and was subsequently sold to Saturn Moscow Oblast in the summer of 2007.

Valentyn Galunko

Education: secondary school (village of Slobodo-Shlyshkovetska, Vinnytsia Oblast, 1979), Fitting College (town of Mogyliv-Podilskyi, 1983); Higher Military Command and Engineering College (now Serpukhov Military Academy of Missile troops) (town of Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, 1988), National Academy of Internal Affairs (city of Kiev, 1998); post-graduate studies at the National Academy of Internal Affairs (2003); doctorate at Kharkiv National Academy of Internal Affairs (2009).

Viktoria Mullova

Mullova was born in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in Soviet Russia.

Vincenz Müller

Along with Bamler, Müller is known to have attended special training in Krasnogorsk late in 1944, and is believed to have been recruited by the Soviet secret services to spy on fellow NKFD members, such as Friedrich Paulus.

Vitali Chilyushkin

Chilyushkin made his debut in the Russian Premier League on 2 May 2010 for FC Saturn Moscow Oblast in the game against Zenit.

Yuriy Sadovenko

In 2007, he became Head of the Office there, and from May to November 2012 became the Head of the Executive Office of the Moscow Oblast.


Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov

Alexander Belyakov was born in 1897 in the village of Bezzubovo, Moscow Governorate (now Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast) and grew up in Ryazan.

BC Triumph Lyubertsy

BC Triumph Lyubertsy Moscow Region (formerly known as BC Dynamo Moscow Region) is a Russian professional basketball team that is located in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

Feodor Koshka

His daughters Anna and Akulina married a Prince of Rostov and Prince of Mikulin, while his granddaughter Maria married Yaroslav of Borovsk, father-in-law of Vasili II of Russia.

Gavriil Gorelov

He was born in Pokrovskoye, Moscow Oblast and studied at the Penza Art College from 1898 to 1903 under the well known Peredvizhniki member Konstantin Savitsky.

Lermontovsky Prospekt

The territory at which the station currently located was until 1984 a part of the town of Lyubertsy of Moscow Oblast.

Levon Chailakhyan

He was a director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Pushchino, Moscow Oblast.

Losiny Ostrov National Park

It is located in Moscow and Moscow Oblast and is the third largest forest in a city of comparable size, after Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town) and Pedra Branca State Park (Rio de Janeiro).

Matthew Chizhov

Chizhov was born the son of a peasant mason on November 10, 1838 in the village of Pudov in the Podolsky District of Moscow Oblast.

Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union

In all, there were 32 members in NCPSU, mainly in Moscow and Moscow Oblast, but there were also groups in Kirov (2 members), Leningrad (2 members), in Ukraine (Dnepropetrovsk, 2 members), in Georgia (Tbilisi and Rustavi, 2 members), in Latvia (Riga, 1 member).

Oleg Antonov

Antonov was born on 7 February 1906 in Troitsy (now Podolsky District of the Moscow Oblast), Russian Empire.

Russian route A101

Within Moscow Oblast it coincides with the old Kaluga road, until the village of Lvovo.

Sedmoi Kontinent

As of July 2010, the company had 121 supermarkets and 4 hypermarkets in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast, 10 supermarkets in Kaliningrad Oblast and one hypermarket in each of the following locations: Ryazan, Chelyabinsk, Minsk (Belarus), Perm, Belgorod and Yaroslavl.

Vikentii Trofimov

Vikentii Pavlovich Trofimov (Russian: Викентий Павлович Трофимов; November 24, 1878 in Talizky Zavod, Perm Governorate – February 10, 1956 in Zagorsk, Sergiyevo-Posadsky District, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian painter.

Zavidovo

The nature reserve is situated 150 kilometres away from Moscow in both Moscow and Tver Oblasts, on the banks of the Shosha River (a tributary of the Volga) and Lama River, and on the shore of the Ivankovo Reservoir.