Khimki

city Khimki имки flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Moscow Urban district Khimki mayor Alexander Drjannow Founded 1850 City since 1939 surface 115  km² population 207,425 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1804 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 495, 498 Post Code 141400-141446 License Plate 50, 90, 150, 190, 750 OKATO 46 483 Website www.admhimki.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 54 '  N , 37 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 54 '0 "  N , 37 ° 27' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Moscow Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Chimki ( Russian Хи́мки ) is a Russian city ​​in Moscow Oblast just off Moscow's northwestern city limits . It has 207,425 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and is located on the St. Petersburg – Moscow railway line .

history

City entrance

Chimki emerged from a collection of dachas and developed into a residential and recreational suburb of Moscow. Small industrial companies such as tile and glass factories are also located here. In 1939 Khimki received city rights. Today, among other things, are there rocket engines for the Buran and - Soyuz - spacecraft made.

In the 1930s there was a main department of the NKVD in Khimki , in which parts of the Great Terror were prepared under Yezhov .

During the Russian campaign in World War II , a reconnaissance troop of the Wehrmacht succeeded on December 2, 1941 in an advance to Khimki, which at that time was about 8 km from the Moscow city limits. It was the furthest German advance on the Soviet capital in the Battle of Moscow ( Jeschi memorial since 1976 ); the Moscow fortress batteries now shot into the front lines of the attackers.

The Moscow-Volga Canal at Khimki

2004 of the amalgamation of the villages Waschutino, Klyazma and Iwakino, the urban-type settlement Starbejewo and the City Schodnja.

In 2008 the mayor Streltschenko , who had since resigned, was criticized for wanting to use a forest near Khimki as lucrative building land. In particular, the editor-in-chief of Chimkinskaya pravda , Mikhail Beketov , reported repeatedly on the illegal marketing of forest properties. After he had been threatened several times, strangers attacked Beketov in mid-November 2008 and injured him so badly that the journalist has been severely disabled since then. In the summer of 2010, the planned relocation of a new motorway from Moscow via Sheremetyevo Airport to Saint Petersburg through this forest area caused criticism throughout Russia; meanwhile the clearing work has been stopped until further notice due to public pressure. Mayor Strelchenko resigned on August 14, 2012. On October 14, 2012, the new mayor Oleg Fjodorowitsch Schachow ( United Russia ) was elected to office with 47.61% of the votes cast. Opposition candidate Yevgenia Tschirikowa , one of the main protagonists in the protest against the deforestation, won 17.59% of the vote.

Trolleybuses have been operating in Khimki since 1997 and also provide a connection to Moscow.

In recent years there has been a public discussion in Khimki about whether the city of Khimki should be incorporated into Moscow. The former governor of Moscow Oblast, Boris Gromov , was a categorical opponent of the incorporation.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	3,000
1939	23.092
1959	47,800
1970	86,645
1979	117,974
1989	132.902
2002	141,000
2010	207.425
2015	232.066
2020	259,550

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

religion

The Russian Orthodox Church in honor of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Method in February 2010.

The majority of the Chimkier population belongs to Russian Orthodox Christianity . In 2007 the construction of the Russian Orthodox Church in honor of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius was completed. There are also two other Russian Orthodox churches. There is also a Gospel Christian-Baptist prayer house and a Pentecostal congregation .

Sports

The football club FK Khimki rose in 2007 as champions of the second-rate first division in the highest Russian league, the Premjer League . In 2009, however, the team was relegated to the second football league.

The basketball club BK Chimki , which participates in the game operations of the VTB United League and won it in 2011 , is also known nationwide. In addition, the club won the ULEB Eurocup in 2012 and 2015 .

Town twinning

• Hrodna , Belarus
• Poltava , Ukraine
• Kemer , Turkey

sons and daughters of the town

• Waldemar Hippius (1876–1941), writer and teacher
• Viktor Polupanov (born 1946), ice hockey player
• Yuri Malyshev (* 1947), rower
• Vladimir Bodrov (* 1958), football player and coach
• Maxim Konzewitsch (* 1964), mathematician
• Alexander Vereschtschaka (* 1965), oceanographer and biologist
• Igor Yushchenko (* 1969), football player and coach
• Jekaterina Lugowkina (* 1980), archery biathlete
• Alexei Schmidt (* 1983), racing cyclist

Web links

Commons : Chimki  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Khimki on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ J. Piekalkiewicz: The Battle of Moscow , p. 205. (See also: The Second World War - A Lexicon , Christian Zentner, p. 381.)
3. ↑ Karl-Heinz Janßen: “To Chimki. Why the German musketeer did not get to the Kremlin ” , in: Die Zeit , December 13, 1991.
4. ^ "Deadly searches" ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Zapp , December 17, 2008.  
5. ↑ RIA Novosti, July 29, 2010 (German)
6. ↑ Губернатор Подмосковья исключил присоединение Химок к Москве. In: Firstnews.ru . June 30, 2012, Retrieved October 11, 2013 (Russian).