Malakhovka (russian: Мала́ховка), a Moscow
suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...
renowned for its historic
dacha
A dacha ( rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ') or shack serving as a family's main or only home, or an outbu ...
s,
[Toda, Yasushi and Nozdrina, Nadezhda N.(2008) ''The Cottages in Suburban Moscow: A New Lifestyle for the Wealthy'', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 24: 3, 444—455] is an
urban locality (a
work settlement) in
Lyuberetsky District
Lyuberetsky District (russian: Любере́цкий райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #81/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central part of the oblast ...
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 ...
,
Russia
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.
[Resolution #123-PG] Population:
History
Under the name Malakhovskoye (), Malakhovka was first mentioned in 1328 in
Ivan Kalita
Iván I Danilovich Kalitá (Russian: Ива́н I Данилович Калита́; 1 November 1288 – 31 March 1340 or 1341Basil Dmytryshyn, ''Medieval Russia:A source book, 850-1700'', (Academic International Press, 2000), 194.) was Grand Du ...
's will as a place left to Ivan's older son
Semyon
Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew ( Biblical ''Šimʿon'', Tiberian ''Šimʿôn''), usually transliterated as Shimon. In Greek it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon.
Meaning
The name is derived from Simeon, son ...
.
![MalakhovkaDacha2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/MalakhovkaDacha2.jpg)
With the completion of a railway station in 1884 Malakhovka was recognized as a dacha settlement. By the end of 19th century, the settlement was inhabited by such renowned representatives of Russian arts and literature as
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...
,
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...
,
Ivan Bunin
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( or ; rus, Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈbunʲɪn, a=Ivan Alyeksyeyevich Bunin.ru.vorb.oga; – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the ...
, and
Feodor Chaliapin
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin ( rus, Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin, ˈfʲɵdər ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ʂɐˈlʲapʲɪn}; April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass v ...
.
Chaliapin performed in the Malakhovka's Summer Theater before 1914.
[ Timothy J. Colton (1998), ''Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis,'' Harvard University Press, p. 127.] The actress
Faina Ranevskaya
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, — 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for ...
performed there from the following year, and also had a dacha there. At the time of the Revolution Malakhovka was a described as a "hamlet" of about three hundred dachas.
Urban-type settlement status was granted to Malakhovka in 1961.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Malakhovka is incorporated within
Lyuberetsky District
Lyuberetsky District (russian: Любере́цкий райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #81/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central part of the oblast ...
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 ...
.
Within the
framework of municipal divisions, Malakhovka is a part of a larger Malakhovka Urban Settlement, which, in addition to Malakhovka proper, also includes the
village
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of
Pekhorka
The Pekhorka (russian: Пехо́рка) is a river in the Moscow Region in Russia, a left tributary of the Moskva. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . and adjacent territories.
[Law #81/2005-OZ, Article 1.4]
Economy and infrastructure
The Malakhovka railway station is located southeast from
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 ...
. The settlement has minor industry: an ore mining equipment factory and a food processing plant. There are also two sanatoriums, a history museum, an Orthodox church, and a synagogue.
Media
Malakhovka has a local newspaper, ''Malakhovsky Vestnik'' (, "Malakhovka Herald").
Notable people
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...
taught at a Jewish boys shelter (mainly for refugees from Ukrainian
pogrom
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s) here in 1921, did the illustrations for
David Hofstein
Dovid Hofshteyn ( yi, דוד האָפשטיין ''Dovid Hofshteyn'', russian: Давид Гофштейн; June 12, 1889 in Korostyshiv – August 12, 1952), also known as David Hofstein, was a Yiddish poet. He was one of the 13 Jewish intellectua ...
's long poem "Troyer" (Grief) and worked on his mural "Introduction to the Jewish Theater".
[Harshav, Benjamin. 2004. ''Marc Chagall and His Times'', Stanford University Press. Pages 75, 294, 298.] The refuge was a center for many Yiddish writers including
Der Nister
Der Nister ( yi, דער נסתּר ֹor דער ניסטער, "the Hidden One"; 1 November 1884 – 4 June 1950 in a Soviet Gulag) was the pseudonym of Pinchus Kahanovich ( yi, פּנחס קאַהאַנאָוויטש), a Yiddish author, philoso ...
, who lived with Chagall,
David Hofstein
Dovid Hofshteyn ( yi, דוד האָפשטיין ''Dovid Hofshteyn'', russian: Давид Гофштейн; June 12, 1889 in Korostyshiv – August 12, 1952), also known as David Hofstein, was a Yiddish poet. He was one of the 13 Jewish intellectua ...
, Moshe Lifshits and
Itzik Feffer
Itzik Feffer (10 September 1900 – 12 August 1952), also Fefer (Yiddish איציק פֿעפֿער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poe ...
.
[Dara Horn, ''The World to Come'', W.W. Norton, 2006, page 313. ]
![Chagal and Der Nister](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Chagal_and_Der_Nister.jpg)
The Soviet writer and
USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...
Laureate
Nikolay Dobronravov (husband of
Aleksandra Pakhmutova
Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova (russian: Александра Николаевна Пахмутова ; born 9 November 1929) is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best-known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular ...
) went to school in Malakhovka during the war.
[Persona.rin.ru]
Nikolai Dobronravov
/ref> The Olympic and World champion runner Irina Privalova
Irina Anatolyevna Privalova (russian: Ирина Анатольевна Привалова; on 22 November 1968) is a Russian Olympic gold medallist athlete.
Her Summer Olympics debut was in 1992 in the sprint events, where she won two medals ...
was born in Malakhovka.
An early (1959) poem by Andrey Voznesensky
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky (russian: link=no, Андре́й Андре́евич Вознесе́нский, 12 May 1933 – 1 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of th ...
is "Last Train to Malakhovka", regarding his regular trips to the settlement.[Andrey Voznesensky, ''Antiworlds and The Fifth Ace'', Basic Books, New York 1967, pp 84-87.]
References
Notes
Sources
*Toda, Yasushi and Nozdrina, Nadezhda N. (2008) The Cottages in Suburban Moscow: A New Lifestyle for the Wealthy, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 24: 3, 444—455
*Timothy J. Colton (1998) Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis, Harvard University Press, 1998, page 127.
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Urban-type settlements in Moscow Oblast
Bronnitsky Uyezd