Moschonki

Village Moschonki Мошонки Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kaluga Rajon Meshchovsk population 168 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 3 Post Code 249231 License Plate 40 OKATO 29 227 828 001 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 17 '  N , 35 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '55 "  N , 35 ° 37' 11"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaluga Oblast

Moschonki ( Russian Мошонки ) is a village (selo) in the Russian Oblast Kaluga in the Federal District of Central Russia . It is located about 150 km as the crow flies southwest of Moscow on the Serena River (tributary of the Schisdra which flows into the Oka ) and has 168 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Moshonki belongs to Rajon Meshchovsk . The village was the seat of a village soviet for a long time , to which nine other places were subordinate until it was merged into the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Schelesnodoroschnaja stanzija Kudrinskaja in 2009 as part of the administrative reform in Russia . The eponymous railway station Kudrinskaja with associated settlement is about seven kilometers from Moschonki and is on the railway line Moscow - Kiev , which crosses the Serena at Moschonki on two 250 meter long bridges.

The best-known building in the area is the Alexander Nevsky Church from the 18th century, which was destroyed by fire in the 1930s and has recently been rebuilt.

Because of its name, the place is relatively well known in Russia, because the name can be translated as scrotum , among other things .

Web links

• Istorija sela Moschonki on edusite.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. ↑ Alexander Nevsky Church of Moschonki (Russian)