Zheleznodorozhny () is an inhabited zone and

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, located east of

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. It was technically abolished and merged into the city of

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in January 2015.Law #209/2014-OZ Population: Its name means "Railway", and its flag and coat of arms both had lines resembling railway tracks.

History

Founded in 1861 to service the railway station of Obiralovka (), the settlement became famous as the location where the main character of

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

's 1878 novel '' Anna Karenina'' committed suicide. It was renamed Zheleznodorozhny (Russian adjective meaning "railway"; example of use: "zheleznodorozhnaya stantsiya" "railway station") in 1939 and granted town status in 1952. СССР. Административно-территориальное деление союзных республик на 1 января 1980 года / Составители В. А. Дударев, Н. А. Евсеева. — М.: Изд-во «Известия Советов народных депутатов СССР», 1980. — 702 с. — С. 172. In the 1960s the settlements of Kuchino (), Savvino (), Temnikovo (), and Sergeyevka () became part of Zheleznodorozhny. Kuchino is historically associated with the name of

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, the Russian poet who lived there between 1925 and 1931. In January 2015 Zheleznodorozhny was abolished and its territory merged into the city of

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it was incorporated as Zheleznodorozhny City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Law #11/2013-OZ, rev. prior to December 2014 As a municipal division, Zheleznodorozhny City Under Oblast Jurisdiction was incorporated as Zheleznodorozhny Urban Okrug.Law #179/2004-OZ

Transportation

The railway connecting Moscow and Vladimir runs through Zheleznodorozhny, which is served by Kuchino and Zheleznodorozhnaya railway stations of the Gorkovsky suburban railway line.

Notable people

* Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, animated films director, lived here until her death in 1980. * Vasily Arkhipov, a retired Soviet Navy Vice Admiral, known for having prevented, as a Captain, the firing of a nuclear torpedo, thus preventing a potential escalation of the

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into World War III, lived in the city until his death in 1998.

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External links

Zheleznodorozhny Business Directory
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