List of cities in the Moscow region by distance from Moscow and by population. The most ancient cities of the Moscow region and attractive for tourists

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• 1 Large cities 250-500 thousand people 1.1 Balashikha
• 1.2 Podolsk

Balashikha

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Balashikha is located east of Moscow, bordering the capital along the Moscow Ring Road. Shchelkovskoye Highway and Entuziastov Highway pass through the city. There is no metro (construction is included in the development plan, as is the light rail line). Residential buildings are surrounded by forests. The environmental situation is relatively favorable.

• Population : 507,366 people. (2020).
• Area : 62.80 km².
• Population density : 8,079.08 people/km².

From the center of Balashikha to the center of Moscow is only 21 km.

Railway with platforms "Gorenki" and "Balashikha station". Travel time to Kursky Station is 40 minutes.

Public transport (buses and minibuses) is well developed both within the city and intercity. Routes connect Balashikha with Moscow, the cities of Zheleznodorozhny and Reutov. Suburban routes run from the Partizanskaya, Perovo and Izmailovskaya metro stations.

Where to work

Industry and research institutes are well developed in Balashikha:

• OJSC "Balashikha Foundry and Mechanical Plant"
• CJSC "Moscow Aircraft Repair Plant DOSAAF"
• JSC "Balashikha Automobile Cranes and Manipulators"
• OJSC Linde Gas Rus and others
• FSUE "SoyuzdorNII"
• FSBI VNIIPO EMERCOM of Russia
• FSUE NIII and others

Where to study

Among higher educational institutions

• Moscow Regional Institute of Management
• Institute of Socio-Economic Forecasting and Modeling
• Academy of Security and Law
• Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University
• Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces named after. Peter the Great
• Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU), branch

Things to do

• City Park of Culture and Recreation
• Pehra Estate - Yakovlevskoye
• Gorenki estate near Moscow
• Dacha V.E. Meyerhold
• Museum of History and Local Lore
• House-Museum of Andrei Bely
• Museum of Air Defense Forces
• Ice Palace named after. Yuri Lyapkina
• Palace of Culture "Balashikha"

The city has several cinemas, an art gallery, fitness centers, a tennis club, and gyms.

In Balashikha there are cozy Soviet quarters, many new residential complexes are being built, and there is also a large private sector of residential buildings. Everyone here will be able to choose the best accommodation for themselves at an affordable price.

Large cities 250-500 thousand people

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Balashikha

Population 428,400 people (2016).

Founded in 1830, city since 1939. In fact, being one of the suburbs of Moscow, the city grew sharply in 2015 due to the annexation of the neighboring city of Zheleznodorozhny. Formerly a center of light industry, it is now a center of mechanical engineering.

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Podolsk

Population 293,765 people (2016).

Founded in 1559, city since 1781. It grew noticeably in 2015 due to the annexation of the city of Klimovsk. Center for the mechanical engineering industry, especially in the field of heat exchange equipment, primarily for nuclear energy.

Taganka Theater

The Moscow Taganka Theater was created in 1964 on the basis of the troupe of the Moscow Drama and Comedy Theater (organized in 1946), which included graduates of the Theater School. Shchukin. Main directors: Yu. P. Lyubimov (1964-84), A. V. Efros (1984-87), N. N. Gubenko (1987-89), Lyubimov (since 1989). Performances: “The Good Man from Szechwan” by B. Brecht (1964), “Ten Days That Shook the World” by J. Reed (1965), “The Fallen and the Living” by D. S. Samoilov and other authors (1965), “ Antiworlds" (based on the poem by A. A. Voznesensky; 1966), "And the dawns here are quiet..." by B. L. Vasilyeva (1970), "Hamlet" by W. Shakespeare (1971), "The Master and Margarita" by M. A. Bulgakov (1977), “House on the Embankment” by Yu. V. Trifonov (1980), “Vladimir Vysotsky” (1981), “Boris Godunov” by A. S. Pushkin (1982), “Zhivago (Doctor)” by B. L Pasternak, “Eugene Onegin” after Pushkin (2000), etc. Actors: V. S. Vysotsky, A. S. Demidova, V. S. Zolotukhin, Z. A. Slavina, V. B. Smekhov, L. A Filatov and others. Since 1993, two troupes.

Large cities 100-250 thousand people

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Khimki

Population 239,967 people (2016).

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Korolev

Population 224,348 (2019). Founded in 1938, until 1996 it was called Kaliningrad. It also includes the science city Yubileiny - in 2014 it was united into an administrative-territorial unit of the Moscow region.

The largest center of the rocket and space industry. Among others, the city is located:

• RSC Energia is the only manufacturer of manned spacecraft in Russia;
• FSUE TsNIIMash is the head institute of the State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos, including its Flight Control Center, which plays a key role in the control of civil spacecraft.

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Mytishchi

Population 201,130 people (2016).

Founded in 1460, city since 1925. The city, among other things, is home to Metrovagonmash, the largest enterprise in the former USSR for the production of subway cars.

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Lyubertsy

Population 190,480 people (2016).

In the city, among other things, there is a Helicopter Plant named after. Kamov, including a design bureau and pilot production of Ka-brand helicopters.

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Elektrostal

Population 158,479 people (2016).

A large center of special metallurgy and heavy engineering. Among others, the city is located:

• The machine-building plant is the country's largest and one of the world's largest enterprises for the production of fuel for nuclear reactors.
• Metallurgical is a large producer of special steels and alloys.

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Krasnogorsk

Population 144,614 people (2016).

The actual location of the Government of the Moscow Region. The city has a developed production of optical instruments.

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Kolomna

Population 143,578 people (2016).

The monumental Kolomna Kremlin has been partially preserved in the city. A major center of mechanical engineering - the city, among other things, is home to the Kolomna Plant, one of the largest transport engineering enterprises, producing locomotives and large engines, including for large warships.

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Odintsovo

Population 141,317 people (2016).

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Serpukhov

Population 126,586 people (2016).

A city on the Oka River, first mentioned in 1339, a city since 1374. In the 16th century it served as one of the most important border fortresses in the south of the country. There are small remains of the ruins of the white stone Kremlin in the city.

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Shchelkovo

Population 123,520 people (2016).

In close proximity to the city there is the Chkalovsky airfield, one of the main military airfields in the country.

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Orekhovo-Zuevo

Population 120,165 people (2016).

In the past, one of the oldest centers of the textile industry. In the city, located at the intersection of the new Trans-Siberian route and the Great Ring of the Moscow Railway, one of the largest railway marshalling stations in Russia and Europe is located.

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Domodedovo

There are also other objects with the same name, see Domodedovo.

Population 116,950 people (2016).

The city is home to Domodedovo International Airport, one of the three major airports in the Moscow air hub.

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Ramenskoye

Population 109,709 people (2016).

In the past, the center of the textile industry, but now the city has a developed instrument making industry.

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Zhukovsky

Population 108,427 people (2016).

Science City, the largest center of aviation science and industry, the site of the Max air show. In the city, among others, there are:

• Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) named after. prof. N. E. Zhukovsky;
• Flight Research Institute named after. Gromova;
• Experimental Machine-Building Plant named after V. M. Myasishchev

Pushkino

Population 107,143 people (2016).

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Sergiev Posad

Population 104,994 people (2016).

The city is home to the Holy Trinity Lavra of Sergius, one of the main centers of Orthodoxy in the Russian world.

In the city, among others, there is the Federal Research and Production Center Research Institute of Applied Chemistry, the largest domestic manufacturer of pyrotechnics.

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Noginsk

Population 101,847 people (2016).

Formerly the center of the textile industry. The city, among other things, is home to a Russian fish processing plant.

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Dolgoprudny

Population 100,567 people (2016).

Geographical position. Climate. Relief.

The climate of Moscow is moderate, continental, the annual amplitude of temperature fluctuations is up to 29°C. Winds from the west and southwest prevail. The frosty period lasts from the end of November to the second half of March (average temperatures –5°C). The absolute minimum temperature is –42°C (1942). The number of days with a thaw reaches 6 days per month. In winter, the soil freezes to 30-40 cm. The height of the snow cover is 40-45 cm. The warm period lasts from April to October.

In warm times, the influx of solar radiation increases, which depends on the transparency of the atmosphere. The least transparency is observed in spring and summer, the greatest - in autumn and winter. Large forest areas (Izmailovsky, Kuzminsky, Losinoostrovsky, etc.) help clean the air and increase its transparency.

All climatic characteristics vary from year to year. For example, the average annual air temperature has increased by almost 1 degree over 30 years.

Moscow is located in the central part of the Russian Platform on a thick crystalline foundation, which is covered by a layer of sedimentary deposits (up to 1650 m).

Of the non-metallic minerals, the most famous are the Carboniferous, Myachkovsky and Podolsk limestones, which served as building materials for the construction of the Kremlin. These rocks are the basis of the Rossiya Hotel, the complex on Manezhnaya Square, as well as a number of bridges across the Moscow River .

Quartz sands, which serve as raw materials for the production of high-quality glass, are of significant practical importance.

Medium-sized cities 20-100 thousand people

Reutov

Population 96,627 people (2016).

A major center of the rocket and space industry.

Voskresensk

Population 94,121 people (2016).

Lobnya

Population 86,020 people (2016).

Wedge

Population 79,075 people (2016).

Dubna

Population 75,179 people (2016).

Large scientific center for nuclear physics and elementary particle physics.

Yegoryevsk

Population 73,324 people (2016).

Ivanteevka

Population 72,023 people (2016).

Chekhov

Population 69,789 people (2016).

Dmitrov

Population 66,588 people (2016).

The city has almost completely preserved the ramparts of the wooden fortress (Kremlin), built when the city was founded in 1154. Also in the city is the stone Assumption Cathedral of the early 16th century.

Stupino

Population 66,420 people (2016).

Pavlovsky Posad

Population 65,633 people (2016).

Vidnoe

Population 62,355 people (2016).

Naro-Fominsk

Population 62,055 people (2016).

Fryazino

Population 59,793 people (2016).

Lytkarino

Population 57,076 people (2016).

Dzerzhinsky (city)

Population 53,867 people (2016).

Solnechnogorsk

Population 52,446 people (2016).

Kashira

Population 49,638 people (2016).

Kotelniki

Population 43,128 people (2016).

Krasnoznamensk (Moscow region)

There are other settlements with this name, see Krasnoznamensk.

Population 40,433 people (2016). Closed city of the aerospace forces.

Protvino

Population 36,910 people (2016).

Istra

Population 34,764 people (2016).

Shatura

Population 33,412 people (2016).

Mozhaisk

Population 30,413 people (2016).

Likino-Dulyovo

Population 30,069 people (2016).

Lukhovitsy

Population 30,065 people (2016).

Dedovsk

Population 29,436 people (2016).

Krasnoarmeysk (Moscow region)

There are other settlements with this name, see Krasnoarmeysk.

Population 26,660 people (2016).

Lakes

Population 25,651 people (2016).

Losino-Petrovsky

Population 25,266 people (2016).

Aprelevka

Population 25,205 people (2016).

Zaraysk

Population 23,653 people (2016).

Elektrogorsk

Population 23,085 people (2016).

Bronnitsy

Population 22,467 people (2016).

Old Kupavna

Population 21,856 people (2016).

Chernogolovka

Population 21,786 people (2016).

Khotkovo

Population 21,538 people (2016).

Pushchino

Population 21,281 people (2016).

Kurovskoe

Population 21,223 people (2016).

Volokolamsk

Population 20,976 people (2016).

Zvenigorod

Population 20,802 people (2016).

Roshal

Population 20,793 people (2016).

Cuban

Population 20,676 people (2016).

Elektrougli

Population 20,612 people (2016).

Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov

Lyubimov Yuri Petrovich [b.
September 17 (30), 1917, Yaroslavl], Russian theater director and actor, People's Artist of Russia (1992). USSR State Prize (1952). State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997). Born into a peasant family, in 1922 the family moved to Moscow. He entered the electromechanical technical school and at the same time studied in a choreographic studio. In 1933, at the age of 16, he entered the studio at the Moscow Art Theater-2, and during his studies he performed a cameo role in the play “A Prayer for Life” by J. Deval.

In 1939 he graduated from the Theater School. B.V. Shchukin at the Theater named after. E. B. Vakhtangov, as a student performed on the stage of this theater in the plays “Princess Turandot” and “Much Ado About Nothing.”

In 1941-47 served as entertainer in the NKVD song and dance ensemble. After demobilization he returned to the theater. Vakhtangov, where one of the first roles he played was the role of Benedict in the play “Much Ado About Nothing.” Among Lyubimov’s other works at that time: Cyrano in “Cyrano de Bergerac” by E. Rostand (1942), Oleg Koshevoy in “The Young Guard” based on the novel by A. Fadeev (1947), Chris in the play “All My Sons” by A. Miller ( 1948), Shubin in “On the Eve” based on the novel by I. S. Turgenev (1948), Izvekov in “Kirill Izvekov” based on the novel “First Joys” by K. A. Fedin (1951). In 1953, for the role of Tyatin in the play “Yegor Bulychev” based on the play by A. M. Gorky (1952), he was awarded the USSR State Prize.

Since 1953 he became a teacher at the school. Shchukin. In 1959, he first tried himself as a director, staging the play “How Much Does a Man Need” based on the play by A. Galich.

In 1963, with the help of a course of students that he taught, he staged the graduation performance “The Good Man from Szechwan” by B. Brecht. The performance was a huge success. On the basis of this performance, a new theater was opened in 1964 - the Taganka Drama and Comedy Theater, which was headed by Lyubimov as chief director. In the 1960-1970s. this theater played a significant role in shaping public opinion in an atmosphere of stagnation. Lyubimov created a special journalistic theater, which, in the atmosphere of Soviet censorship, raised the most pressing issues of our time. Almost every one of his performances made it onto the stage with great difficulty, and some were banned by the authorities. The talented director managed to create a unique acting group of like-minded people, where there were no obvious “first violins”, but there was a single, powerful ensemble that always played in unison under the direction of only its conductor, Lyubimov. Among his best productions: “Ten Days That Shook the World” by J. Reed (1965), “Listen!” by V.V. Mayakovsky (1967), “Pugachev” by S.A. Yesenin (1967), “Tartuffe” by Moliere (1968), “Alive” by B.A. Mozhaev (1968, banned, resumed in 1989), “Mother” by A. M. Gorky (1969), “Hamlet” by W. Shakespeare (1971), “And the dawns here are quiet...” by B. L. Vasiliev (1971), “The Master and Margarita” by M. A. Bulgakov (1977), “House on the Embankment” after Yu. V. Trifonov (1980), “Boris Godunov” by A. S. Pushkin (1982). In 1976, at the international festival BITEF, the play “Hamlet” received the Grand Prix.

In 1984, Lyubimov, who was abroad, was first released from the post of chief director, and then deprived of USSR citizenship. In 1984-89, he staged performances on the most prestigious stages in Europe (he began to be invited to foreign productions in 1975). In 1989, due to the perestroika process, his citizenship was restored. Arriving in the USSR, he staged the plays “A Feast in the Time of Plague” (based on “Little Tragedies” by A. S. Pushkin, 1989) and “Suicide” by N. Erdman (1990).

In 1991 he returned to Russia. In 1992 he proposed a new model of theater work, in which there was no place for many of the actors of the former Taganka. There was a split in the theater, and at the same time a separate group, the “Commonwealth of Taganka,” arose.

Lyubimov, despite this turn, continued to work. He staged “Zhivago (Doctor)” based on B. L. Pasternak (1993), “Teenager” (1996) and “The Brothers Karamazov” (1997) based on F. M. Dostoevsky, “Sharashka” based on A. I. Solzhenitsyn (1998 ), “Chronicles” based on the tragedies of W. Shakespeare (2000), “Eugene Onegin” based on the novel by A. S. Pushkin (2000), “Theatrical novel” based on M. A. Bulgakov (2001), “Socrates” (2001), “Faust” after Goethe (2002), “Go and stop (Oberiuts)” (2004).

At the same time, the director continued to work abroad in theaters in Finland, Greece, Germany, etc.

He starred in the films “Restless Farming” (1946), “Kuban Cossacks” (1950), “Three Meetings” (1950), “Man from Planet Earth” (1959), “Cain the Eighteenth” (1963), “A Farm in the Steppe” (1970) and others.

Small towns of less than 20 thousand people

Golitsyno

Population 17,535 people (2016).

Yakhroma

Population 14,004 people (2016).

Peresvet (city)

Population 13,872 people (2016).

Krasnozavodsk

Population 13,397 people (2016).

Ruza

Population 13,393 people (2016).

Taldom

Population 13,099 people (2016).

Drezna

Population 11,760 people (2016).

Vysokovsk

Population 10,690 people (2016).

Vereya

Population 5,215 people (2016).

St Basil's Church

St Basil's Church . One of the most famous churches in Moscow, built under the name Intercession Cathedral in 1555-61 in honor of the victory over the Kazan Khanate on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. Subsequently, the added St. Basil's Church gave its name to the entire temple. The motley coloring reflects the tastes of later times (17th century). The temple was originally painted red and white. The Intercession Cathedral was conceived as the first city-wide cathedral built outside the walls of the Kremlin, and was supposed to symbolize the unity of the tsar with the people.

see also

• Moscow region
• Cities of Russia

Vidnoe

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Vidnoye is located on the Bitsa River, 3 km south of the Moscow Ring Road. The nearest districts of Moscow: Biryulovo East, Biryulovo West. The territory of the city is conventionally divided into three parts: one is an industrial zone, the other two are residential, separated by the M4-Don highway. The western residential zone contains private houses, and the eastern residential zone contains apartment buildings.

• Population : 77,018 people. (2020).
• Area : 18 km².
• Population density : 4,278 people/km².

From the center of Vidnoye to the center of Moscow is only 28 km. or 41 minutes by car.

Parallel to the Don highway runs the Paveletsky railway with the Rastorguevo stop.

There are buses within the city, to Moscow and nearby villages. There is an intracity trolleybus service. There is no metro.

Where to work

• "JSC Moscow Coke and Gas Plant"
• Plant "Gipsobeton"
• LLC "MEGAPAK"
• LLC "Vidnovsky Concrete Plant"
• VNIIKOP

Where to study

• Moscow Regional Socio-Economic Institute

Things to do

• Sports Palace "Vidnoe"
• Ice Palace "Arctic"
• Football stadium "Metallurg" and football club "Vidnoe"
• Women's basketball club "Sparta&K"
• Hockey team "Metallurg"
• Motorcycle team "Metallurg"
• Pool "Dolphin"
• Children's pool "Kitenok"
• Vidnoe estate (Lipki) and linden park with ponds
• Timokhovo-Salazkino Estate
• Historical and cultural center
• Vidnovsky forest park