Odintsovo
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Odintsovo
Одинцово
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List of cities in Russia |
Odintsovo ( Russian Одинцо́во ) is a district town in Russia , in the Moscow Oblast with 138,930 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is located six kilometers west of the Moscow city limits , near the M1 trunk road and on the Moscow – Minsk – Warsaw railway line .
history
The village of Odintsovo has been known since 1470. The expansion of the Moscow – Smolensk railway , which began in 1870, helped the town to flourish, which continued thanks to its popularity as a recreational area for the Moscow population. In the following years Odintsovo became a popular residential suburb of the capital. In 1957 he was granted city rights.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1926 | 3,000 |
1939 | 12,548 |
1959 | 20,337 |
1970 | 67,254 |
1979 | 101,365 |
1989 | 125.149 |
2002 | 134,844 |
2010 | 138.930 |
2013 | 137.810 |
Note: up to 2010 census data (1926 rounded)
economy
Important branches of the economy are the building materials and chemical industries, clothes and furniture production also shape the city.
Town twinning
- Navapolatsk , Belarus
- Berdyansk , Ukraine
- / Kerch , Ukraine / Russia
- Kislyar , Russia
- Wittmund , Germany
- Anadyr , Russia
- Kruševac , Serbia
Attractions
In Odintsovo there is a church (Grebnewskaja Zerkow) from 1802. Other striking buildings in the city are the station building from the late 19th century and the former brickworks, built in 1887, which is now the home of the local museum.
sons and daughters of the town
- Konstantin Krischewski (1926–2000), football player
- Wiktor Gordijuk (* 1970), ice hockey player
- Vladimir Loginov (* 1981), ice hockey player
- Sofja Otschigawa (* 1987), boxer
- Owik Ogannisjan (* 1992), boxer
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)
- ↑ Александр Торопцев: История Московской земли: с древности до наших дней . Изд-во "Эксмо", January 1, 2007 ( google.ru [accessed February 28, 2017]).
- ↑ Константин Крижевский , rusteam.permian.ru (Russian)
Web links
- City and county information (Russian)
- Economy and Politics in Odintsovo (Russian)
- Odintsovo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)