Yakhroma (russian: Я́хрома) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Dmitrovsky District Dmitrovsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. The districts' name generally derives from or is related to the male first name Dmitry. *Dmitrovsky District, Moscow, a district in Northern Administrat ...

of Moscow Oblast,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

, located on the

Yakhroma River The Yakhroma (russian: Яхрома) is a right tributary of the Sestra that flows through a network of peat marshes in the north of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It passes through the towns of Dmitrov and Yakhroma, crossing the Moscow Canal The Mosco ...

, north of

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 millio ...

. Population:

History

It was founded in 1841 as a settlement servicing a local textile factory on the Yakroma River. In 1901, a railway station, which later adopted the same name, was built near the settlement on the Moscow ( Savyolovsky)–

Kimry Kimry (russian: Ки́мры), formerly Kimra (), is a town in the south of Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River at its confluence with the Kimrka River, to the east of Tver. Population: History The town was known as Kimra until the ...

(

Savyolovo Savyolovo (russian: Савёлово) is a microdistrict of the town of Kimry in Tver Oblast, Russia. It lies on the right bank of the Volga River and is connected to the left-bank part of Kimry by a bridge over the Volga (the longest bridge in ...

) line. The settlement was granted town status in 1940. On 27.11.1941 Germany, briefly took the Moscow-Volga Bridgehead at , what they called, Jachroma, with its railway station, a day after reaching the outskirts of Kashira (Kaschira).

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with thirty-seven rural localities, incorporated within

as the

Town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

of Yakhroma.Resolution #123-PG As a municipal division, the Town of Yakhroma is incorporated within Dmitrovsky Municipal District as Yakhroma Urban Settlement.Law #74/2005-OZ

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2014 Cities and towns in Moscow Oblast Populated places in Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast