Aeroport District (russian: райо́н Аэропо́рт, ''rayon Aeroport'', "Airport District") is an administrative district (
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
) of the
Northern Administrative Okrug
The Northern Administrative Okrug (russian: Се́верный администрати́вный о́круг, ), or Severny Administrative Okrug, is one of the twelve high-level territorial divisions (administrative okrugs) of the federal city ...
and one of the 125 raions of
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
,
Russia
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. The area of the district is .
The district is named for the
Khodynka Aerodrome
Khodynka (russian: links=no, Ходынский, ''Khodynskiy''), officially Frunze Central Aerodrome, often referred to as Tsentralny (), was an airport in Moscow, Russia, located northwest of the centre of the city.
History
The founding of the ...
, which closed in 2003. The
Aeroport Metro Station opened in the district in 1938.
Economy
The aviation companies
Irkut,
Ilyushin
The public joint stock company Ilyushin Aviation Complex, operating as Ilyushin (russian: Илью́шин) or as Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a former Soviet and now a Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau, founded in 1933 by Sergey Vl ...
, and
Yakovlev
The JSC A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau (russian: ОАО Опытно-конструкторское бюро им. А.С. Яковлева) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport D ...
have their head offices in the district.
Education
The
New Humanitarian School, a private school, is in the district.
Home page
New Humanitarian School. Retrieved on May 21, 2012. "Krasnoarmejskaya st., 30”Б” 125319, Moscow, Russia"
See also
*Administrative divisions of Moscow
The federal city of Moscow, Russia is divided into administrative districts called okrugs, which are a subdivision of state administration. The administrative okrugs are further divided into municipal formations called districts (''raions'') and ...
*Khodynka Aerodrome
Khodynka (russian: links=no, Ходынский, ''Khodynskiy''), officially Frunze Central Aerodrome, often referred to as Tsentralny (), was an airport in Moscow, Russia, located northwest of the centre of the city.
History
The founding of the ...
*Aeroport (Moscow Metro)
Aeroport (russian: Аэропо́рт, ) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. Its name, literally meaning ''airport'', owes to the nearby Khodynka Aerodrome, Moscow's first airport, no longer in operation. Now, there is a bus ...
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Districts of Moscow
Northern Administrative Okrug