Strogino , formerly known as
Ostrogino , is a district in North-Western Administrative Okrug of
MoscowMoscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a...
,
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, located on the right bank of the
Moskva RiverThe Moskva River is a river that flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a tributary of the Oka River.-Etymology:Moskva and Moscow are two different renderings of the same Russian word Москва. The city is named after the river. The origin of the name is unknown, although...
. An eponymous
Moscow MetroThe Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Russian capital, is the world's second most heavily used rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realist art.-Description of the Metro:In...
station
StroginoStrogino is the terminus station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of theMoscow metro. Named after the housing district of Strogino, it was opened on 7 January, 2008 as part of a massive Strogino-Mitino extension, and is currently the westernmost station of the Metro.Originally planned as part of a...
on the
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya LineThe Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, now it connects the major Izmaylovo District on the east of Moscow, and the Strogino District on the west, with the city centre...
was opened here on January 7, 2008.
The district is named after an extinct village and known to have existed since the early 17th century as an estate of the Romanovs and later the
NaryshkinNaryshkin is a Russian surname and may refer to:* Members of Moscow boyar family, including Natalia Naryshkina, the mother of Peter the Great, and her father, Kirill Poluektovich Naryshkin.* Sergey Naryshkin , a politician...
family.
Strogino , formerly known as
Ostrogino , is a district in North-Western Administrative Okrug of
MoscowMoscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a...
,
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located on the right bank of the
Moskva RiverThe Moskva River is a river that flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a tributary of the Oka River.-Etymology:Moskva and Moscow are two different renderings of the same Russian word Москва. The city is named after the river. The origin of the name is unknown, although...
. An eponymous
Moscow MetroThe Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Russian capital, is the world's second most heavily used rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realist art.-Description of the Metro:In...
station
StroginoStrogino is the terminus station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of theMoscow metro. Named after the housing district of Strogino, it was opened on 7 January, 2008 as part of a massive Strogino-Mitino extension, and is currently the westernmost station of the Metro.Originally planned as part of a...
on the
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya LineThe Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, now it connects the major Izmaylovo District on the east of Moscow, and the Strogino District on the west, with the city centre...
was opened here on January 7, 2008.
The district is named after an extinct village and known to have existed since the early 17th century as an estate of the Romanovs and later the
NaryshkinNaryshkin is a Russian surname and may refer to:* Members of Moscow boyar family, including Natalia Naryshkina, the mother of Peter the Great, and her father, Kirill Poluektovich Naryshkin.* Sergey Naryshkin , a politician...
family. Strogino was engulfed by Moscow in 1960 and became a popular summertime venue thanks to its beaches. In the 1970s, the construction of
apartment buildingA regular house, Apartment house, Apartment block, Block of flats, or Tenement, is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several apartments , or flats...
s in the area was started, and a
microdistrictMicrodistrict, or microraion , is a residential complex—a primary structural element of the residential area construction in the Soviet Union and in some post-Soviet states...
was built. Stroginsky Boulevard is the main artery of Strogino.
Soviet
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s
Mikhail SuslovMikhail Andreyevich Suslov was a Soviet statesman, Marxist-Leninist political theorist and ideologist, and a member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
and
Konstantin ChernenkoKonstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984, until his death just thirteen months later on 10 March 1985...
had a Gosdacha in the settlement Troitse-Lykovo (Троице-Лыково).