Zhukovsky (city)

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Zhukovsky (English)
Жуковский (Russian)
Zhukovsky (city) (Russia)
Zhukovsky (city)
Location of Zhukovsky on the map of Russia
Coordinates
55°36′N 38°7′E / 55.6, 38.117Coordinates: 55°36′N 38°7′E / 55.6, 38.117
Coat of Arms Flag
City Day: Third Sunday of August
Administrative status
Federal subject
In jurisdiction of
Administrative center of
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast
Local self-government
Charter Charter of Zhukovsky
Municipal status Urban district
Head Alexander Bobovnikov
Legislative body Council of Deputies
Area
Area 31.86 km² (12.3 sq mi)
Population (as of the 2002 Census)
Population
- Rank
- Density
101,328 inhabitants
161st
3,180.4/km² (8,237.2/sq mi)
Events
Founded 1935
Town status April 23, 1947
Renamed Zhukovsky April 23, 1947
Other information
Postal code 140180
Dialing codes +7 49648, +7 495
Official website
http://www.zhukovskiy.ru/

Zhukovsky (Russian: Жуко́вский) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Moskva River, 40 km southeast of Moscow.

The urban-type settlement of Stakhanovo was founded in 1935 from the dacha settlement Otdykh (literally, "Relaxation"). It was named after Alexey Stakhanov - a famous miner in the Soviet Union. Later in 1947 received the town status and renamed to Zhukovsky after the pioneer of aero- and hydrodynamics Nikolai Zhukovsky.

Zhukovsky is a home to the M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute known as LII and N. Ye. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute known as (ЦАГИ) TsAGI — they are two major facilities involved in testing and designing aircraft. These facilities were employers for a great portion of the city's population before perestroika.

There are a number of not so big, but also important enterprises, like:

  • V. V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (NIIP),
  • Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Equipment (Научно-исследовательский институт авиационного оборудования, НИИАО, NIIAO),
  • Agate Moscow Scientific Research Institute (Московский научно-исследовательский институт «Агат», Агат, Agate),
  • Vladimir Myasishchev Experimental machine-building plant Myasishchev (Экспериментальный машиностроительный завод имени В.М.Мясищева, ЭМЗ, EMZ).

There are also some design bureaus - Sukhoy, Ilyushin, Tupolev, etc.

Machine-building, woodworking plants, spare parts factory, paper-mill Food industry - Inko, Nestle, local bread-baking plant.

Zhukovsky is the center of track and field athletics in Moscow region. Most notable Zhukovsky-born athletes - Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Ekaterina Podkopayeva, Andrew Epishin, Dmitriy Bogdanov and others. In 2005 a new world class athletics stadium "Meteor" was opened.


In 2008 President Putin signed a presidential decree establishing the National Aircraft Construction Center[1]

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