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Distinctive features. The Moscow region got its name in honor of the capital of Russia, which insidiously became a separate subject of the Federation. Despite this, the Moscow region rightfully occupies a leading position among other regions, being in second place after Moscow in terms of population and its density.
The area of \u200b\u200bthe territory is not that big - 44379 sq. km. (57th in the country). The region is part of the Central Federal District. One of the main advantages of living in the Moscow region is the proximity of Moscow itself. You can visit there at least every day, since the transport links are quite well developed. Many residents do not spare their time to travel to Moscow to work every day.
Geographic location... The Moscow Region is located in the central part of the East European Plain. The typical landscape here is fields that give way to forests. Here are the basins of the Volga, Oka, Moscow and Klyazma rivers.
Population. The territory of the former Moscow principality is predominantly Russian population, except for those who moved here from different parts of the immense USSR. The ancestors of these people fought with the Tatars on the Kulikovo field, beat down Napoleon's soldiers, and now they are contributing to the development of the Russian economy. Population as of January 1, 2013 - 7048 thousand people. 81% of the population are urban residents. The population density is 182 people / sq. m. The percentage of men and women is 46:54. The average age is 40, which is higher than the Russian average. The population is growing at the expense of newcomers, and so far the mortality rate in the region exceeds the birth rate, although this trend is decreasing every year.
Crime. The crime rate in the region is not that high, thanks to the skilled work of local law enforcement officers. In 2011, the Moscow region was ranked 45th in the crime rating of regions.
By unemployment rate The Moscow Region is one of the regions with the lowest indicator. In 2012, it was only 0.53%. The average salary in the region is 1.5-2 times higher than in other regions. In 2012, it was at the level of RUB 31,509.
Property value in the Moscow region varies in the range of 50 - 90 thousand rubles per sq. m. The most expensive is Khimki. Here the cost per square meter of housing reaches 107 thousand rubles. New buildings in the Moscow region are mainly offered in the range of 2.5 - 5 million rubles. for the apartment.
Climate Moscow region - moderate continental. In summer it is + 23 ° С, in winter -10 ° С. The average annual precipitation is 500-700 mm. Depending on what prevails in the state of air masses - a cyclone or an anticyclone - summer will be cool and humid, or dry and hot. And for those who like to walk in the rain, we recommend the North-West of the region.
Cities of the Moscow region
- this city is located around the optical plant, just about to give it its name Optikogorsk. Now it is developing intensively, mainly due to visitors from different parts of Russia and the CIS. Pros: proximity to the capital, tolerably well-developed infrastructure. Cons: problems with utilities, petty crime like gopniks, deteriorating environmental situation.
- 14 city-district centers;
- 43 cities of regional subordination;
- 1 closed city - Krasnoznamensk;
- 12 cities of district subordination, which are under the administrative subordination of districts;
- 3 cities that are administratively subordinate to cities of regional subordination.
List of cities in the Moscow region by distance from Moscow
The cities of Lyubertsy, Kotelniki and Reutov head the list, they are located 2 km from the capital, Dzerzhinsky and Khimki - 3 km, Krasnogorsk - 4, Vidnoe and Odintsovo - 5 km, Dolgoprudny - 6, Balashikha and Shcherbinka - 8 km, Mytishchi - 9 km , Yubileiny - 10, Moskovsky - 11 km, Zheleznodorozhny, Lytkarino and Korolev - 12 km, Lobnya - 14 km, Domodedovo - 15 km, Podolsk - 16 km, Troitsk - 18 km, Ivanteevka, Pushkino and Shchelkovo - 19 km, Dedovsk - 20 km, Zhukovsky, Staraya Kupavna and Elektrougli - 23 km, Klimovsk - 24 km, Aprelevka - 25 km, Fryazino - 27 km, Golitsino and Ramenskoye - 28 km, Krasnoznamensk and Losino, Petrovsky - 29 km, Istra - 36 km, Noginsk - 37 km, Krasnoarmeysk - 39 km, Bronitsy and Zvenigorod - 41 km, Elektrostal - 42 km, Chernogolovka - 43 km, Solnechnogorsk - 44 km, Dmitrov, Yakhroma and Kubinka - 48 km, Chekhov - 50 km, Khotkovo - 53 km, Sergiev Posad - 55 km, Naro-Fominsk - 57 km, Pavlovsky Posad - 59 km, Elektrogorsk - 64 km, Klin - 66 km, Peresvet - 71 km, Drezna - 72 km, Serpukhov - 73 km, Krasnozavodsk - 74 km, Voskresensk - 76 km, Vysokovsk and Orekhovo-Zuevo - 78 km, Kurovskoye - 79 km, Likino-Dulyovo - 86 km, Ruza - 87 km, Stupino - 88 km, Mozhaisk - 89 km, Kolomna - 91 km, Volokamsk - 94 km, Pushchino - 96 km, Dubna - 98 km, Vereya, Protvino, Kashira - 99 km, Yegoryevsk - 100 km, Ozherelye - 105 km, Taldom - 107 km, Lukhovitsy - 112 km, Ozery - 119 km, Zaraysk - 137 km, Shatura - 138 km. The most remote city of Roshal closes the list of cities in the Moscow Region, its distance to Moscow is 147 km.
This includes the territory and cities of Moscow located from the Moscow Ring Road at a distance of 40 km towards the region. What are the cities near Moscow? The list is small: Mytishchi, Kotelniki, Lyubertsy, Lobnya, Zhukovsky, Podolsk, Odintsovo, Domodedovo, Khimki, Krasnogorsk, Dzerzhinsky, Balashikha, Reutov, Korolev, Pushkino and others. All these cities are known to almost every inhabitant of our country.
The largest cities of the Moscow region: a list of cities by population
The list of the 20 largest cities in the Moscow region in terms of the population living in them includes:
- Balashikha - 215 350 people;
- Khimki - 208,560 people;
- Podolsk - 187 960 people;
- Korolev - 183,400 people;
- Mytishchi - 173,340 people;
- Lyubertsy - 171,980 people;
- Elektrostal - 155,370 people;
- Kolomna - 144,790 people;
- Odintsovo - 139,020 people;
- Railway - 132,230 people;
- Serpukhov - 126,500 people;
- Orekhovo-Zuevo - 121 110 people;
- Krasnogorsk - 116,740 people;
- Shchelkovo - 108,060 people;
- Sergiev Posad - 105,840 people;
- Pushkino - 102,820 people;
- Zhukovsky - 102,790 people;
- Noginsk - 102,080 people;
- Ramenskoye - 101,200 people;
- Wedge - 93 420.
The most ancient cities
In the era of ancient Russia (the period before the Tatar-Mongol invasion), about 17 ancient Russian cities were located on the territory of the modern capital region. But only 9 of them are mentioned in ancient written sources, and only they retained their names and did not turn into dead cities. List of ancient cities of the Moscow region: Moscow, Zaraysk (Sturgeon), Mozhaisk, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Dubna, Zvenigorod, Lobynsk, Kolomna.
Most of the cities of the ancient Moscow region are mentioned in chronicles since the 12th century. The very first mention of the city of Dubna is 1134, the second is Volokolamsk - 1135. List of ancient cities of the Moscow region and the year of their first mention in the chronicle:
- Dubna - 1134;
- Volokolamsk - 1135;
- Moscow, Lobynsk - 1147;
- Dmitrov - 1154;
- Kolomna - 1177;
- Zaraysk (Sturgeon) - 1225;
- Mozhaisk -1231
Touristically attractive cities of the Moscow region
1. Sergiev Posad. One of the main attractions and decoration of the city is the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. Also famous are the Ascension Church, Pyatnitskaya, Uspenskaya, Vvedenskaya, old shopping arcade and the monastery hotel.
2. Wedge. The old church on the territory of the former Assumption Monastery, the Resurrection Church, the shopping arcade, the Demyanovo estate are of tourist interest. In the village of Boblovo there is a museum of D.I. Mendeleev.
3. The city of Kubinka. Invites guests to the famous military history armored museum.
4. Old Kupavna. Holy Trinity Church attracts many pilgrims.
5. Mozhaisk. The majestic earthen Kremlin, Yakimansky and Nikolsky cathedrals are all sights of a small town.
The most favorable cities for life in the Moscow region
The analysis of cities located at a distance of 30 km from the Moscow Ring Road was carried out. 21 criteria were taken into account when compiling the rating: infrastructure development, availability of housing, availability of jobs, quality of services provided to the population, quality of medical care, social protection of the population, ecology and cleanliness of the city, and many others. etc. The first place in the list of the most favorable for the life of the population of the cities of the Moscow region was taken by Klimovsk, the five leaders included Ivanteevka, Vidnoe, Dolgoprudny, Lobnya.
In terms of transport accessibility, among the cities near Moscow, one can single out such cities as Khimki, Lobnya, Reutov, Lyubertsy, Mytishchi, Kotelniki, Krasnogorsk, Dolgoprudny and Vidnoe.
The list of cities in the Moscow region with the highest level of atmospheric pollution: Elektrostal, Zheleznodorozhny, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Klin, Serpukhov, Mytishchi, Noginsk, Balashikha, Kolomna, Yegoryevsk, Podolsk, Lyubertsy.
Cities with a high level of radioactive contamination: Troitsk, Dubna, Khimki, Sergiev Posad.
Of the most built-up cities in the Moscow region, Reutov is in first place, Yubileiny is in second, then Zheleznodorozhny, Podolsk, Krasnoznamensk, Fryazino, Lyubertsy, Dolgoprudny, Ivanteevka.
You can admire this view from one of the surrounding hills for a very long time without stopping.
The Lavra is a real museum of the history of Russian church architecture; here you can find most of the famous styles, and their most striking examples.
Outside the Lavra, there are also picturesque places, although, I must confess, I have not yet studied the surroundings very well: 
The second place is Kolomna, a large historical city about 100 km away. from Moscow, which is unofficially otherwise called "the capital of the Moscow region." In the 16th century, it was the main outpost against the regular invasions of the Crimean Tatars, therefore, a huge brick Kremlin was built here even before Ivan the Terrible, only slightly inferior in size to the Moscow one. During the raids, tens of thousands of residents from the surrounding volosts took refuge in it.
Now only a few towers and small fragments of walls remain from the Kolomna Kremlin, but they also make an indelible impression: 
Inside the former Kremlin, there is a magnificent ensemble of the old city, which was given the status of a reserve. You rarely see this in Russia - everything is licked, cleaned, painted, people continue to live in small old houses. But there is also the opposite effect - a feeling of some kind of sterility, emptiness and unnaturalness of the environment. There is a lack of what constitutes the soul of a museified historical center in any country in the world - streets filled with people with a thousand cafes, restaurants, shops, workshops, street musicians, artists, etc.
But it's still great, beautiful: 
The other day I came to Kolomna for the third time since 2005 and I hope to return again.
The third place is the town of Dmitrov, 65 km away. north of Moscow. I visited this city since childhood and saw how dramatically it has changed over the last 20 years. It seems that there is a real economic boom and new infrastructure is growing right before our eyes - shopping and sports centers, vast residential areas, central streets are being improved. I don’t remember that anywhere else in Russia the historic center was completely reconstructed in several years, the main street was closed off and turned into a pedestrian zone, decorative shopping arcades were built, and many street sculptures were installed. More precisely, there is only one example - the aforementioned Kolomna.
The historical center of Dmitrov, as well-maintained and cultured as in Kolomna, is still very different in itself. Its core is made up of high earthen ramparts of the former wooden Kremlin, inside of which the imposing Cathedral of the Assumption of the 16th century is enclosed: 
Outside the ramparts, a private building area has been preserved, and behind it is another attraction in the ensemble of the historical center, the Borisoglebsky Monastery: 
This monastery amazes with its fantastic grooming, not to say, lacquered. Temples and walls shine with whiteness, the whole area is buried in flowers and is a monument of modern landscape and park art, there are even peacocks. In general, the visit evokes a feeling of complete delight and respect for the citizens of Dmitrov.
The fourth place is Zaraysk, the most remote city in the region from Moscow. It is almost not explored by tourists and gives the impression of some kind of wilderness, a real Russian province with chickens in the streets and massive wooden buildings in the center, which are not threatened with demolition in the coming years, despite their dilapidation.
The main attraction is a completely preserved stone Kremlin of the 16th century with a regular rectangular shape: 
The surviving temples are gradually being restored in the city.
I would say that in all its spirit Zaraysk is an antipode to the museified historical center of Kolomna.
Fifth place - Serpukhov.
I only went there once in 2007 and was captivated by the atmosphere. There was an impression that this rather large city was located not a hundred, but a thousand kilometers from Moscow and in the courtyard there was still the 90s. A huge contrast with Kolomna and Dmitrov, although, perhaps, my impressions in this case are very subjective.
There is no compact historical center in Serpukhov. The ancient Kremlin hill stands somewhere on the outskirts. A rather modest-looking cathedral rises on it and a quiet village life flows around it: 
A very tragic story happened to the stone Serpukhov Kremlin. In the 1930s. the local authorities, either on their own idiotic initiative, or at the request of the center, decided to dismantle the ancient walls to the base and send the resulting stone for finishing the Moscow metro under construction.
Only a small fragment was left to the descendants: 
Well, where else in Russia today can you see horses grazing at the Kremlin wall?
Sixth place - Podolsk. This large city is worth visiting at least for the sake of seeing one of the wonders of Russia - the Church of the Sign on its outskirts, in the Dubrovitsy estate: 
By its architecture, this temple has no analogues in Russia. It was built during the reign of Peter I by masters invited from Switzerland, so the decoration corresponds more to the Catholic tradition: 
Seventh place - Zvenigorod. A small town with a sonorous name is located 30 km. west of Moscow. The main attractions are outside its modern center. On the old settlement (Gorodok) there is one of the oldest temples of the Moscow land - the white-stone Assumption Cathedral of 1399. 
2 km. from Zvenigorod there is the famous Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery with the Nativity Cathedral of the 15th century.
Eighth place is the town of Vereya, 95 km south-west of Moscow, once the capital of the independent Vereya principality.
Vereya conquered me with her picturesqueness, if you descend from a high hill, where city life is in full swing, and cross the footbridge, you immediately find yourself in some kind of fabulous world of rural childhood: 
The hostesses milk the cows right on the river bank; on the surrounding streets there are almost no souls.
View of the district from the city Kremlin hill: 
The city has some pretty interesting churches, including the mid-16th century Nativity Cathedral (heavily rebuilt), but the main thing to come here for is the picturesque landscape.
Among the ten most interesting cities in the Moscow region, of course, is Mozhaisk, 110 km west of the capital. Once it was an outpost of Moscow against invasions from the west, a frontier fortress (hence the expression "Drive behind Mozhay"). The Mozhaisk Kremlin has existed since the 12th century, at the beginning of the 17th century it received stone walls, which, unfortunately, were dismantled long before the revolution.
Now the historical center, the Kremlin hill, is the very outskirts of Mozhaisk. At the entrance to the city from the west, the whole area is dominated by the new St. Nicholas Cathedral of the early 19th century in the style of Gothic romanticism: 
To the left of it is visible the old St. Nicholas Cathedral, much more modest in size.
Within the city there is an interesting Luzhetsky Ferapontov Monastery with a cathedral from the time of Ivan the Terrible.
Finally, in the top ten I would include the city of Bogorodsk (better known under the Soviet name Noginsk), which originates from the village of Rogozhi since 1389: 
Although this city does not shine with architectural masterpieces and such a rich history as the previous ones, and has not preserved most of the environment of the old center, it has many interesting and picturesque corners. Also noteworthy are the efforts of local authorities to improve the most attractive places, create local zones where citizens would be pleased to come to rest.
Of course, in the Moscow region there are still many interesting and beautiful historical cities, I hope that over time I will tell you about them.
And some more small towns of the Moscow region that I have previously visited. I decided to google this subject, tk. a mess has already formed in my head from the huge number of places I have visited over the past 20 years of travel. And with a little too much for myself, I realized that Zaraysk was actually almost the only city in the Moscow region - among no more than a dozen others ( there are exactly 73 of them in the Moscow region), in which I have never been! Having carefully studied the long table below under the cut, I realized that I had already traveled around Moscow a little less than completely - up and down. In this connection, lately I have been catching myself thinking when visiting another city near Moscow that I seem to have been here before, or that it looks like one of the neighboring ones.
Therefore, I decided to briefly write this statistical post as a memo for myself and information for traveling braz and sist.
Cities and settlements of the Moscow region
According to official statistics, in the Moscow region as of 2016, there are 73 cities (32 - regional subordination, 40 - regional subordination and 1 - closed administrative-ter. Education), in which approx. 6,069,500 people or 81,69% from the total population of the Moscow region (7,430,000 inhabitants).
According to the international media group Russia Today, in 2016 the population of the Moscow metropolitan area was about 25 million people, and in total, up to 40 million people are involved in its life. Therefore, if we take into account these figures, voiced personally by the mayor of the capital, those January statistics, which caused so much pain and controversy in this blog, do not seem so much exaggerated. Because one thing is the official statistics of some Wikipedia, and quite another is the realities and impressions of visiting all these cities and their nooks during travel. However, the post is not about that.
Vopschem, I was impressed by this table:
(Italic it highlights the cities of regional subordination, forming urban districts. District centers are highlighted bold font)
And one more interesting fact that I did not know about before:
This table does not include the city of Radonezh located five kilometers from Brazerville (2 km from the city of Khotkovo and 10-12 from the city of Sergiev Posad), founded according to legend back in the distant "Tatar-Mongol" times by the Novgorodian Radoneg, who built here a fortress on the site of a settlement that was subjected to numerous devastations due to constant raids on these lands. And in the future (in the XIV century) it received the status of a city. And at the beginning of the 17th century, it was completely wiped off the face of the earth by the Poles during their campaign to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, located nearby in today's Sergiev Posad. Radonezh, previously subjected to numerous attacks and rebuilding anew, was never able to recover from the last raid and was soon transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery (Lavra), again turning into a village. Today, on the site of this once large (by old standards) Russian city, according to official statistics for 2010, only 5 people officially live near the remains of the ramparts of the 15th century, which are gradually turning into a local cemetery, and a local "remake" church built in the mid-19th century, erected on the bank of the once full-flowing river Vorya, which today has turned into a small, fishless stream ...
These are the drunken nostalgic thoughts that came to me in the process of writing the Zaraisk post, the photo report of which is