Timiryazevsky District (russian: Тимирязевский райо́н) 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
Northern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of
Moscow
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,
Russia
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.
The district is known for its public parks - Timiryazavsky Park and the Dubki Park - and the
Timiryazev Agricultural Academy Timiryazev (russian: Тимиря́зев, links=no; masculine) or Timiryazeva (russian: Тимиря́зева, links=no; feminine) is a Turkic Russian last name. It may refer to:
People
* Arkady Timiryasev (1880-1955), Soviet physicist and philo ...
. The total area of the district is .
Population: 82,800 (2017 est.)
History
Timiryazavsky Park is near the site of the Petrovsko-Razumovskoye estate. The estate was the ancestral home of the
Shuysky family, sold to the
Naryshkin family in 1676 and passed to
Peter the Great
Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...
in 1705 and became known as 'Petrovsky'.
It was owned by the
Razumovsky
The House of Razumovsky or Rozumovsky (, Ukrainian: ''Розумовський'', German: ''Razumofsky'') is the name Imperial Russian noble family of Zaporozhian Cossack origin from Siveria. The main family line became extinct in the 19th cen ...
Family in the 18th and 19th centuries.
On the grounds was built the Razumovsky Palace, the architect of which was
Nicholas Benois
Nicholas Benois (russian: link=no, Никола́й Лео́нтьевич Бенуа́; 13 July 1813 – 23 December 1898) was an Imperial Russian architect who worked in Petergof, Peterhof and other suburbs of St Petersburg.
Biography
Benois w ...
. 1n 1861, the palace became the home of the Petrovsky Agricultural and Forestry Academy, today the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.
The academy, and the district, are named for
Kliment Timiryazev
Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev (russian: Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев, surname sometimes transliterated as Timiriazev; – 28 April 1920) was a Russian Imperial botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of the ...
, a botanist who established a faculty and laboratory of vegetable physiology at the Petrovsky Academy.
The academy houses several museums open to the public, including what the district government calls 'the only horse-breeding museum in the world'.
See also
*
Administrative divisions of Moscow
References
Notes
Sources
External links
*
imiryazevsky Public Park http://www.moscow.info/parks/timiryazevsky-park.aspx
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Districts of Moscow
Northern Administrative Okrug