Solnechnogorsk is a town in Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

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, Russia

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, the administrative center of Solnechnogorsky District. It is situated on the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Highway

Russian Route M10

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 and the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway

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, on the coast of Senezh Lake, 65 kilometres (40.4 mi) north-west from Moscow

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. Population:

Originally, there was a village named Solnechnaya Gora (Sunny Hill). It received town status and was renamed Solnechnogorsk in 1938.

Some of the main features of the town are a metal construction factory, a glass-works, a sports fishing business, holiday homes, sport centers, children's summer camps, and ski lodges.

There is a museum of local lore in the town. Not far from Solnechnogorsk is the estate of Shakhmatovo that once belonged to a prominent Russian poet Alexander Blok

Alexander Blok

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet.-Life and career:Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg...

; a museum of him has been opened there.

The town is the headquarters of the Russian Space Forces

It is also the birthplace of former Soviet hockey players Victor Shalimov

Victor Shalimov

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 and Valeri Kharlamov.