Pushkino is a city and the administrative center of Pushkinsky District

Pushkinsky District, Moscow Oblast

Pushkinsky District, Moscow Oblast is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 38 in Moscow Oblast, Russia....

 of Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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, located at the confluence

Confluence

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 of the Ucha

Ucha River

Ucha River is a river in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Klyazma River.The Ucha is 42 km in length, with a drainage basin of 605 km². It flows through the towns of Pushkino and Ivanteyevka, and flows into the Klyazma River at the town of Shchyolkovo.Tributaries:...

 and Serebryanka Rivers, 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) northeast of Moscow

Moscow

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. Population: 57,000 (1974); 30,000 (1959); 21,000 (1939).

According to one of the historic versions, the village of Pushkino was first documented in 1499 when it belonged to Grigory Morkhinin "Pushka", a boyar

Boyar

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 whose male-line descendants include Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....

, a poet whose statue graces one of the town's main squares. During the following centuries, the neighbourhood evolved into a favoured summer retreat of Russian nobility

Russian nobility

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. In 1678, a five-domed church of Saint Sergius was built at the manor of Komyagino. (picture). Another notable estate is Muranovo

Muranovo

Muranovo is the Fyodor Tyutchev state museum located in Pushkino, Moscow Oblast, Russia.The estate was founded in 1816 and since then has belonged to four families, including Fyodor Tyutchev's family. Its main house was built in wood in 1842 by Yevgeny Baratynsky, another renowned Russian poet...

, where the Russian poets Evgeny Baratynsky

Evgeny Baratynsky

Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. After a long period when his reputation was on the wane, Baratynsky was rediscovered by Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky as a supreme poet of thought.- Life :Of noble ancestry, Baratynsky was...

 and Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev is generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of Russia, following Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.- Life :...

 used to spend their summers. A dacha

Dacha

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 of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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, who lived in Pushkino during summer seasons of 1920-1928 is also a museum

Museum

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. Pushkino was granted town status in August 1925. Today it is notable for its Institute of Forest Science, one of the few in Russia.

Twin towns/sister cities

Pushkino is twinned

Town twinning

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 with: Bert, Germany Kutná Hora

Kutná Hora

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, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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 Orivesi

Orivesi

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, Finland

Finland

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