Mendeleyevo (russian: Менделе́ево) is an
urban locality (a
work settlement) in
Solnechnogorsky District
Solnechnogorsky District (russian: Солнечного́рский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #27/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest o ...
of
Moscow Oblast,
Russia
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, which stands on the
Klyazma River, about from its source, near the city of
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 ...
, and opposite of the ancient Russian
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
of
Lyalovo
Lyalovo (russian: Лья́лово) is a rural locality (a village) under the administrative jurisdiction of Mendeleyevo Work Settlement in Solnechnogorsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on high left bank of the Klyazma River a ...
. Population:
It was founded in 1957 as a
closed town
A closed city or closed town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight. Such places may be sensitive military establishments or secret research ins ...
attached to the
All-Union (now All-Russian) Scientific Research Institute for Physical-Engineering and Radiotechnical Metrology (
VNIIFTRI),
and is named after the famous Russian chemist
Dmitry Mendeleyev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes transliterated as Mendeleyev or Mendeleef) ( ; russian: links=no, Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев, tr. , ; 8 February Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._27_January.html" ;"title="O ...
who was an eminent metrologist as well. While not now officially in the list of Russian ''
naukograd
Naukograd ( rus, наукогра́д, p=nəʊkɐˈgrat, also technopole), meaning "science city", is a formal term for towns with high concentrations of research and development facilities in Russia and the Soviet Union, some specifically built ...
s'', it is still close to this category, as the VNIIFTRI scientific institute remains one of the most important local employers.
Aeroflot Flight 411
Aeroflot Flight 411 was an international scheduled flight from Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow to Freetown, Sierra Leone via Dakar in Senegal. Early on 6 July 1982, the four-engined Ilyushin Il-62 crashed and was destroyed by fire after two engine ...
crashed near the town in July 1982.
References
External links
Official website of MendeleyevoOfficial website of VNIIFTRI
Urban-type settlements in Moscow Oblast
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