Lyubertsy is a city and the administrative center of Lyuberetsky District of Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

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, Russia

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Lyubertsy was founded in 1623, and it became a city in 1925.

Notable people

• Sergei Abeltsev
  Sergei Abeltsev
  Sergey Nikolayevich Abeltsev is a member of the State Duma of Russia and a former bodyguard of Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He has been a member of the State Duma's Committee on National Security since December 2003 and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Prior to his election to the...
  
  , LDPR politician
• Yuri Gagarin
  Yuri Gagarin
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  , first human in space
• Alexander Menshikov, assistant of Peter the Great
• Nikolay Rastorguyev, lead singer of rock group Lyube
• Boris Razinsky
  Boris Razinsky
  Boris Davidovich Razinsky is a retired Soviet Russian football player and manager. He played both as a goalkeeper and as a striker...
  
  , association football player
• Vasily Yakemenko
  Vasily Yakemenko
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  , youth politician

Tourism

Although it has some moderately attractive areas and is near some beautiful dacha

Dacha

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 areas such as Malakhovka, Lyubertsy attracts few tourists.

Industry

Lyubertsy is a major industrial center. There are more than twenty-five industrial enterprises and a large railway junction.

Prevailing domains are mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering

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, metalworking

Metalworking

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, production of construction

Construction

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 materials, woodworking

Woodworking

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 and food processing

Food processing

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Among the largest enterprises are:

• Kamov company. Ukhtomsky Helicopter plant named after N. I. Kamov (developer of the world-famous Ka-50 "Black Shark" and Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopters)
• Ukhtomsky machine-building plant, making equipment for raising livestock
  Livestock
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• "Torgmash" joint-stock company produces manufacturing equipment
• A construction materials plant
• "Lyuberetskye carpets" collective
• "Belaya dacha" agricultural processing plant, a supplier for McDonalds