Krylatskoje
Krylatskoje ( Russian Крыла́тское ) is a place with a population of over 62,000 in the Russian capital Moscow . It is located on the outskirts of the city in the West District on the right bank of the Moskva and is administratively a district ( Rajon ). Today Krylatskoje is a popular residential area, mainly due to its scenic location.
history
Krylatskoje is one of the oldest Moscow districts: Certain archaeological finds suggest that the area may have been in the second millennium BC. Was settled. The earliest documented mention of the place, back then as a village called Krylezkoje (Russian Крылецкое ), goes back to the year 1417. According to this writing, the village was then owned by Prince Vasily of Moscow. The location of the village between the highways that connected Moscow with cities such as Moshaisk or Wolokolamsk made it famous in higher circles of the tsarist empire . According to tradition, Ivan the Terrible made frequent stopovers there and is said to have attended the inauguration of a newly built wooden church in 1554.
At the beginning of the 17th century a member of the Romanov family bought the village; according to a census from 1646 it consisted of 18 farms with a population of 24 people. The center of the village was the wooden church built a few decades earlier high on a hill and a water source in the valley that still bubbled today. After the wooden church burned out at the beginning of the 18th century, a new wooden church was built in its place, which in turn was replaced at the end of the 19th century by a stone church building in the same place as well as by a chapel at the water source, which is considered sacred.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Krylatskoje established itself as a popular excursion and recreation spot for wealthy Muscovites, who also built dachas there.
After the October Revolution , like everywhere else in Russia, the farms in Krylatskoye became state property; a little later a kolkhoz was built there , which was supplemented by a large poultry farm in the 1950s. The town's church was closed in 1936 by order of the state and largely dismantled during the German air raids in World War II so that its altitude could not serve as a guide for the airmen.
In the course of the expansion of the Moscow outskirts in the 1960s, Krylatskoje was incorporated into Moscow in 1960 and later completely rebuilt. The old farms on the hills were demolished and numerous prefabricated building districts were built in the vicinity from the early 1980s . In addition, Krylatskoje was selected as the location for several sports facilities for the 1980 Olympic Games . In the late 1970s, a roofed cycling track and an artificial regatta track were built on the banks of the Moscow River near Krylatskoje . The hilly landscape between the residential areas and the Moskva also developed into a popular ski area in winter , which was also equipped with a chair lift .
In the course of the 80s, the district was expanded and developed into a mass residential area. The infrastructure was further improved and roads rebuilt; In 1990 Krylatskoje received a metro connection with the station of the same name . In the late 80s to early 90s, the church was rebuilt on the hill and a few years later an access road from the residential areas to the church was raised. Due to partly forested hilly landscapes and a lack of industry, Krylatskoje is still considered to be ecologically very little polluted, which makes the place a popular - and therefore relatively expensive - residential area. The proximity to the residential area around Rublevka also drives up apartment prices here.
Attractions
The most striking sights of the place are the Krylatskojer Hills (Russian: Крылатские холмы ), which have been designated as a landscape protection area since 1998 and are up to 60 meters high , which cover an area of around 200 hectares, partly wooded, south of the banks of the Moskva. In one of the gorges between the hills there is a stream that is fed by the already mentioned water source. To this day, the quality of the water from this spring is considered to be very good, which makes it a popular destination not only among local residents. The hilly landscape itself is valued by nature lovers because of its unusually rich flora and fauna by Moscow standards: the area offers a habitat for wild animals such as rabbits , ermines , weasels , several bat species , but also some rare insect species.
Architecturally interesting in Krylatskoje is the Church of Our Lady of the Nativity from the 19th century, which was rebuilt in 1990 and is located on one of the hills. About 40 meters from the building, remains of the former churchyard from the 16th century were discovered during archaeological research .
Transport and infrastructure
Krylatskoje has good transport connections and is located near a junction of the Moscow ring road MKAD . At the end of 2007, a further motorway link went into operation, which bypasses the town to the north via a new Moskva bridge. Part of this new motorway route runs in the newly built north-west tunnel . The local public transport in Krylatskoje is now well developed: The district is accessed by several bus and trolleybus lines as well as by an underground line. There are 17 schools and three public libraries available. The retail trade is represented in Krylatskoje with over 230 different shops as well as a large shopping center near the metro station.
Krylatskoye Metro Station
The metro station of the same name located in Krylatskoje was put into operation on December 31, 1989, at that time as part of a western extension of the Filjovskaya line from the previous terminus Molodjoschnaja by another station. Since the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line was extended from the previous terminus Park Pobedy to Strogino at the beginning of 2008 , taking over an existing section of the line that previously belonged to the Filjowskaya line, Krylatskoje underground station has now been served by trains on this line.
The station is nine and a half meters below the surface and - typical for Moscow metro stations of the 1970s and 1980s - has a tubular platform hall with a central platform and two exits to the mezzanine level with escalators running upwards . The walls above the tracks are covered with slabs of gray-striped white marble and the floor with black and gray granite . In the style of the nearby sports facilities such as the regatta track, the station was given a bronze sculpture composition with stylized depictions of athletes at both exits.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the Raion Administration (Russian)
- Unofficial website of the Rajons (Russian)
- Description of the metro station on the official Moscow Metro website (in Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RIA Novosti archive, image # 823764 / Dmitryi Donskoy / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ' N , 37 ° 25' E