Gorky Leninsky
Urban-type settlement
Gorky Leninskiye
Горки Ленинские
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Gorki Leninskije ( Russian Го́рки Ле́нинские ) is a place in Russia in the Moscow Oblast not far from the cities of Widnoje and Domodedowo and about 35 km south of Moscow . He has the status of an urban settlement and counts 3,586 inhabitants (14 October 2010). Gorky Leninsky is located on the Pachra River , a right tributary of the Moskva .
Gorky is best known for the fact that revolutionary leader Lenin died there on January 21, 1924. In the last years of his life he had lived in a former manor house, which was built on the estate there - then known as Wyschnije Gorki - in the early 19th century for the noble Durasov family together with an old classical park ensemble. In the 1910s, the complex passed into the ownership of the Moscow mayor Reinbot and was rebuilt, with the renowned architect Fyodor Schechtel being among others responsible for participating in the renovation project. After the October Revolution , the property was confiscated by the Bolsheviks and since 1918 Lenin has used it as a suburban residence. After his resignation from political activities due to illness, Lenin stayed permanently in Gorky for the last months of his life.
In 1949 the mansion and its ensemble were converted into a museum in memory of Lenin's last years. It is still operated today by the Russian Ministry of Culture as the Lenin Museum and offers group tours on request.
About four kilometers from Gorky is the Leninskaya train station on the route from Moscow ( Paveletsky train station ) via Domodedovo to Kaschira .
- Population development
year | Residents |
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1989 | 1711 |
2002 | 1729 |
2010 | 3586 |
Note: census data
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
Web links
- Museum at museum.ru (Russian)
- Gorki Leninsky Manor (Russian)
- Leninskije Gorki, the birthplace of the Soviet Union at Russia Beyond the Headlines: News from Russia