Kúntsevo (russian: Ку́нцево) is a

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of the

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. Population:

History

In the 18th century, a palace and a park were built; they were often visited by the Empress

Catherine II , en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anha ...

. Kuntsevo is the site of the Church of Theotokos Orans. In the 19th century, Kuntsevo became a summer resort for the Muscovites. A summer theater was opened in 1890. Artists and writers lived and worked in Kuntsevo; among them

Nikolay Karamzin Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (russian: Николай Михайлович Карамзин, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ kərɐmˈzʲin; ) was a Russian Imperial historian, romantic writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for ...

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 (Old Style dat ...

Vasily Perov Vasily Grigorevich Perov (russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в; 2 January 1834 (21 December 1833 Old Style, O.S.) – 10 June (29 May O.S.) 1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realism (arts), R ...

, and

Ivan Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (russian: Ива́н Никола́евич Крамско́й; June 8 (O.S. May 27), 1837, Ostrogozhsk – April 6 (O.S. March 24), 1887, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual l ...

. Kuntsevo became a town in its own right in 1926. In 1960, it became a part of Moscow. Now a district of Moscow, it contains many factories, residential areas, and has a well-connected infrastructure. Kuntsevo is reported to be the location of the

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Transport

The district has two metro stations: Molodyozhnaya on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and

Kuntsevskaya Kuntsevskaya may refer to: *Kuntsevskaya (Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya and Filyovskaya lines) Kuntsevskaya (russian: Кунцевская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Kuntsevo District, Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on Arba ...

on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and the Filevskaya Line. Strogino metro station in neighboring

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serves parts of the Myakinino area of the Kuntsevo district. The Myakinino area is also served by bus number 638 that goes from to

Shchukinskaya Shchukinskaya (russian: Щукинская) is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the village of Schukino before it was consumed by Moscow and became a municipality in the 1940s, it was opened on ...

metro station via Strogino. From Rublevo buses: * 127 Rublevo – Kotsyubyns'kogo Street (to Molodyozhnaya metro station) * 129 Myakinino – Carpool General Staff (to Krylatskoye metro station ) * 626 3rd district Strogina – Molodyozhnaya metro station Part of the southern boundary of the district is the

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main railway toward

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. Commuter stations on this line connect with the

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in Moscow. Heading west on the mainline, commuter trains go to

Golitsyno, Moscow Oblast Golitsyno (russian: Голи́цыно) is a town in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located west of Moscow. Population: History It was founded as a settlement in 1872 and was granted town status in 2004. Administrative and mun ...

Kubinka Kubinka (russian: Ку́бинка) is a town in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Setun River, west of Moscow. Population: __TOC__ History Kubinka, founded in the 15th century, may have been named after Prince , a ...

and

Mozhaysk MozhayskAlternative transliterations include ''Mozhaisk'', ''Mozhajsk'', ''Mozhaĭsk'', and ''Možajsk''. ( rus, Можа́йск, p=mɐˈʐajsk) is a town and the administrative center of Mozhaysky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located to th ...

. The branch line to Usovo and the freight-only line to Rublevo leave the mainline in Kuntsevo district at Rabochiy Posolok.

Kuntsevo Dacha

Kuntsevo railway station on Moscow-Minsk Railway

Soviet leaders started to settle in Kuntsevo in the 1920s.

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

instructed his architect,

Miron Merzhanov Miron Ivanovich Merzhanov, born Meran Merzhanyantz (russian: Мирон Иванович Мержанов, Меран Оганесович Мержанянц, September 23, 1895 – December 1975), was a Soviet architect of Armenian descent, notabl ...

, to build him a

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on the bank of the

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and moved there in 1934. With his move other members of the Soviet elite had their dachas built in the surroundings. Stalin conducted much of his business from his ''Blizhnyaya Dacha'' () ("nearby dacha"). It was heavily protected and included a double-perimeter fence, camouflaged 30-millimeter antiaircraft guns, and a security force of three hundred

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

special troops. Stalin died at the dacha on March 5, 1953.

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Kuntsevo Dacha

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