Zhukovsky
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Zhukovsky
Жуковский
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List of cities in Russia |
Zhukovsky ( Russian Жуко́вский ) is a city in Moscow Oblast in Russia . It is located around 35 km southeast of Moscow near the city of Ramenskoye . Zhukovsky has 104,736 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
history
From the dacha settlement Otdych ( Отдых , dt. Recovery ) the community Stachanowo (Стаханово) emerged in the 1930s . In 1947 Stachanowo received city rights and its current name. The city is named after the scientist Nikolai Jegorowitsch Schukowski , who is considered the father of Russian aviation.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 10,785 |
1959 | 41,748 |
1970 | 73,781 |
1979 | 90.288 |
1989 | 100,609 |
2002 | 101,328 |
2010 | 104,736 |
Note: census data
economy
Zhukovsky is the main center of Russian aerospace. At the time of the Soviet Union , the city was not accessible as a base for the air forces . To this day it is the focus of Russian aircraft research and planning with several control stations and runways , including the largest in Europe with a length of 5.4 km and a width of 120 m at the Zhukovsky airfield .
The following research institutes and universities can also be found :
- The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (ZAGI)
- The Mikhail Gromov University for Flight Research (LII)
- The OKB ( Experimental Design Office ) Mikoyan-Gurevich
- The Scientific Research Institute for Automation and Instrument Making (NIIAP)
- The school for MiG test pilots
The international aerospace exhibition MAKS takes place here every two years .
Town twinning
- Le Bourget , France
- Sydals Municipality , Denmark
- Ulyanovsk , Russia
sons and daughters of the town
- Boris Wassiljewitsch Palzew (1939–2014), mathematician
- Igor Romischewski (1940–2013), ice hockey player and coach
- Igor Votinzew (* 1953), test pilot
- Jelena Walajewa (* 1953), film actress
- Wladimir Sewerin (* 1956), test cosmonaut
- Lyudmila Telen (* 1957), journalist
- Sergei Melnikow (* 1959), test pilot
- Viktoria Mullova (* 1959), violinist
- Nikolai Matjuchin (* 1968), walker
- Alexander Pavlov (* 1969), test pilot
- Andrei Jepischin (* 1981), athlete
- Maxim Rybin (* 1981), ice hockey player
- Nina Bratchikova (* 1985), tennis player
- Viktorija Baranova (* 1990), track cyclist
- Marija Tolkachova (born 1997), gymnast
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
- Official city website (Russian)
- Zhukovsky on mojgorod.ru (Russian)