Noginsk
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Noginsk is a town and the administrative center of Noginsky District
of Moscow Oblast
, Russia
, located 34 kilometres (21.1 mi) east of the MKAD
ring road on the Klyazma River
. Population:
Throughout the 19th century and for a good part of the 20th century, the town was a major textile
center, processing cotton
, silk
, and wool
. This Moscow satellite's industrial production is now concentrated on ceramics (two major holdings), food (Biserovo fisheries and a fish factory in Noginsk), beverage (one of Russia's biggest beverage producers is located near Noginsk) and construction materials. Noginsk is a transportation hub being the intersection of the Nizhny Novgorod highway, M7 (E22) and the Moscow Minor Ring road.
Founded in 1389 as Rogozhi, the town was later mentioned as Bogorodsk - a City of the Mother of God - in a Catherine the Great decree in around 1781 when it was granted the status of town
. The town was renamed Noginsk in 1930 after Bolshevik
Viktor Nogin
. Some of the town's companies, such as Bogorodsk Brewery http://pivo.noginsk.ru and Bogorodskavtotrans (a local transportation company), bear the name of Bogorodsk. An official campaign to definitively bring the city's historical name back was launched earlier this year and is ongoing.
Rapid transit development plans include possible construction of a direct high-speed railroad line connecting Noginsk to the prospective Serp i Molot railroad/metro terminal or Shosse Entuziastov metro station. The local transport system consists of buses and trams. Noginsk's current commuters' travel to and from with Moscow is provided by the M7 Moscow-Nizhny-Novgorod highway. This takes 30 minutes to one hour, depending on traffic conditions. There is also an indirect railroad line going through Fryazevo (the line running the first 16 km southward, whereas Moscow lies due west of Noginsk. It was built in the late 19th century for the purposes of the textile industry
and is still in use. Express train travel time is currently one hour and 10 minutes.
A guyed mast of a longwave radio broadcasting
station is located in Noginsk at 55°50′08"N 38°20′37"E
Vladimir Laptev was the Mayor of Noginsk until 2005. Current mayor is Vladimir Khvatov.
Noginsky District
Noginsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 38 in Moscow Oblast, Russia....
of Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast , or Podmoskovye , is a federal subject of Russia . Its area, at , is relatively small compared to other federal subjects, but it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and, with the 2010 population of 7,092,941, is the second most populous federal subject...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located 34 kilometres (21.1 mi) east of the MKAD
MKAD
MKAD is a ring road encircling the City of Moscow.The acronym is a transliteration of the Russian МКАД, for Московская Кольцевая Автомобильная Дорога .The growth of traffic in and around Moscow in the 1950s made the city planners realise Russia's largest metropolis...
ring road on the Klyazma River
Klyazma River
The Klyazma River is a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, a left tributary of the Oka River. The length of the river is 686 kilometres. The area of its drainage basin is 42,500 km². The Klyazma River freezes up in November and stays under the ice...
. Population:
Throughout the 19th century and for a good part of the 20th century, the town was a major textile
Textile
A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...
center, processing cotton
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....
, silk
Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity...
, and wool
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....
. This Moscow satellite's industrial production is now concentrated on ceramics (two major holdings), food (Biserovo fisheries and a fish factory in Noginsk), beverage (one of Russia's biggest beverage producers is located near Noginsk) and construction materials. Noginsk is a transportation hub being the intersection of the Nizhny Novgorod highway, M7 (E22) and the Moscow Minor Ring road.
Founded in 1389 as Rogozhi, the town was later mentioned as Bogorodsk - a City of the Mother of God - in a Catherine the Great decree in around 1781 when it was granted the status of town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
. The town was renamed Noginsk in 1930 after Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
Viktor Nogin
Viktor Nogin
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin was a prominent Bolshevik in Moscow, holding many high positions in the party and in government, including Chairman of the Moscow Military-Revolutionary Committee and Chairman of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of Moscow Council of Workers'...
. Some of the town's companies, such as Bogorodsk Brewery http://pivo.noginsk.ru and Bogorodskavtotrans (a local transportation company), bear the name of Bogorodsk. An official campaign to definitively bring the city's historical name back was launched earlier this year and is ongoing.
Rapid transit development plans include possible construction of a direct high-speed railroad line connecting Noginsk to the prospective Serp i Molot railroad/metro terminal or Shosse Entuziastov metro station. The local transport system consists of buses and trams. Noginsk's current commuters' travel to and from with Moscow is provided by the M7 Moscow-Nizhny-Novgorod highway. This takes 30 minutes to one hour, depending on traffic conditions. There is also an indirect railroad line going through Fryazevo (the line running the first 16 km southward, whereas Moscow lies due west of Noginsk. It was built in the late 19th century for the purposes of the textile industry
Textile industry
The textile industry is primarily concerned with the production of yarn, and cloth and the subsequent design or manufacture of clothing and their distribution. The raw material may be natural, or synthetic using products of the chemical industry....
and is still in use. Express train travel time is currently one hour and 10 minutes.
A guyed mast of a longwave radio broadcasting
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
station is located in Noginsk at 55°50′08"N 38°20′37"E
Vladimir Laptev was the Mayor of Noginsk until 2005. Current mayor is Vladimir Khvatov.
Notable people
- Pavel Alexandrov, mathematician
- Grigory FedotovGrigory FedotovGrigory Ivanovich Fedotov was a Soviet professional football player and manager.-Playing career:Fedotov played for FC Serp i Molot Moscow and CSKA Moscow, and was the first player to score over 100 goals in the Soviet Top League...
, footballer - Anatoly Ivanovich LipinskyAnatoly Ivanovich LipinskyAnatoly Ivanovich Lipinsky is a Russian military leader, Counter Admiral commander of Leningrad Naval base.- Biography :Was born on June, in the city of Noginsk of Moscow Oblast, Russia.In 1981 After graduating from the S. M...
, Counter AdmiralCounter AdmiralCounter admiral is a rank found in many navies of the world, but no longer used in English-speaking countries, where the equivalent rank is rear admiral...
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after October 9, 2006 - Boris PilnyakBoris PilnyakBoris Pilnyak was a Russian author. Born Boris Andreyevich Vogau in Mozhaysk, he was a major supporter of anti-urbanism and a critic of mechanized society. These views often brought him into disfavor with Communist critics...
, writer, family came from Blogorodsk and he grew up there - Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
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, Russian Foreign Minister - Leonid Kamynin, Izvestia daily journalist, founder of Izvestia international bureaus in Latin America
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, Russian ice dancer,an Olympic champion - Igor SpasskyIgor SpasskyIgor Dmitriyevich Spasskiy is a Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, General Designer of nearly 200 Soviet and Russian nuclear submarines, and the head of the Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering Rubin....
, Soviet navy submarine designer, National Prize Laureate