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8 unusual facts about Zhukovsky


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.

Aleksey Belevsky-Zhukovsky

The name was chosen from the village of Belyov in the province of Toula where his grandfather poet was born.

Count Sergei Alexeevich Belevsky-Zhukovsky (17 February 1903 Moscow – 27 November 1956 Los Angeles) married in 1926 Nina Botkine (1901–1966) and had one daughter Helene.

Alexei Alexeevich was born to Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, the son of Czar Alexander II of Russia, and Alexandra Vasilievna Zhukovskaya, daughter of famous Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

Countess Elizabeta Alexeevna Belevskya-Zhukovskya (8 September 1896 Russia – 30 July 1975 New Jersey) married Petr Ghika-Perevostchikov (1872–1937) and had two children.

Alhaji Jeng

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

Dmitry Volkhov

Born October 27, 1987 in Zhukovsky, Russia, in 2011 Volkhov graduated from the Municipal Institute (МИ '11) of Zhukovsky, from the department of "Crisis Management" (Антикризисное управление).

Viktoria Mullova

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


Department of Aeromechanics and Flight Engineering of MIPT

Unlike the other departments based in Dolgoprudny this one is situated in Zhukovsky, in a result of this the functioning of the department and its traditions are different.

Moskva River

The river also flows through the towns of Mozhaysk, Zvenigorod, Zhukovsky, Bronnitsy, Voskresensk, and — at the confluence of the Moskva and Oka — Kolomna.

Pavel Katenin

Disappointed by Zhukovsky's mellifluent translation of Bürger's Lenore, Katenin brought out his own version of the ballad, whose title was Russified as Olga (1816).


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