Lyalovo (russian: Лья́лово) is a rural locality (a

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) under the administrative jurisdiction of

Mendeleyevo Mendeleyevo (russian: Менделе́ево) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localities *Mendeleyevo, Moscow Oblast, a work settlement in Solnechnogorsky District of Moscow Oblast Rural localities * Mendeleyevo, Kal ...

Work Settlement in Solnechnogorsky District of

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

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. It is located on high left bank of the

Klyazma River The Klyazma (, ''Klyaz'ma''), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.Zelenograd Zelenograd ( rus, Зеленогра́д, p=zʲɪlʲɪnɐˈgrat, lit. ''green city'') is a city and administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia. The city of Zelenograd and the territory under its jurisdiction form the Zelenogradsky Administrative O ...

Etymology

The name "Lyalovo" supposedly originates from an

Old Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and using it in translating the Bible and other ...

or a

Uralic The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (w ...

word ''lyalo'' (), which means a body of a boat upturned, or a shape similar to such body. The hill on which the village is located resembles this shape.

History

Lyalovo is believed to be one of the most ancient populated places in Moscow Oblast. Several settlements were discovered near this village, with the oldest of them dating back as far as four thousand years. Morozovka country estate, currently transformed into a VIP rest home, is located in Lyalovo. This country estate has been in the hands of many well known Russian owners. In the 1800s, it was owned by the Romodanovsky and Princes

Beloselsky-Belozersky The Belosselsky-Belozersky princely and Rurikid family is an aristocratic Russian family that descends in a direct male line from the Earliest Kievan Rus rulers and later of the medieval sovereigns of the Principality of Beloozero. Origins The ...

. (Prince Esper Alexandrovich Belosselsky-Belozersky is buried in the church at Lyalovo having succumbed to typhoid fever in 1846, which was epidemic during that year. He contracted the fever while inspecting the newly built Petersburg-Moscow railroad, for which he was the chief of police). Before the

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, the estate belonged to the famous family of

Morozovs The Morozovs (russian: Морозовы) is a famous Old Believers Russian family of merchants and entrepreneurs. The family name Morozov originates from a Russian word ''moroz'' (мороз) that means ''frost''. The founder of the family was ...

—one of the richest Russian merchant families. A Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos is also located in Lyalovo. Many of the former estate owners' family members are buried in the church krypt and grounds. During the Soviet times, the estate was a "Sanatorium" as part of the "ZIK" complex of the

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machine. Since 1992,

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is the proprietor.

Coat of arms

The current

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of Lyalovo was established in 1989. It shows a picture of a sheaf, symbolizing one of the first rural picture galleries in Russia that was established there, on a red background symbolizing the

Battle of Moscow The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between September 1941 and January ...

. The blue waves in the bottom signify the river

Klyazma The Klyazma (, ''Klyaz'ma''), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

settlements found there. The Kremlin tower in the upper-left corner shows that the village belongs to

References

External links

Coat of Arms of Lyalovo
{{Authority control Rural localities in Moscow Oblast