Noginsk (russian: Ноги́нск) is a

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and the

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Noginsky District Noginsky District (russian: Ноги́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #82/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of ...

in Moscow Oblast,

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, located east of the Moscow Ring Road on the Klyazma River. Population:

History

Founded in 1389 as Rogozhi, the town was later renamed Bogorodsk (lit. '' townof the

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'') by a Catherine the Great's decree in 1781, when it was granted town status. Throughout the 19th century and for a good part of the 20th century, the town was a major

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center, processing

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, and

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. In 1930, the town was renamed Noginsk after

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

Viktor Nogin.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Noginsk serves as the

.Resolution #123-PG As an administrative division, it is, together with five rural localities, incorporated within Noginsky District as the

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of Noginsk. As a municipal division, the City of Noginsk is incorporated within Noginsky Municipal District as Noginsk Urban Settlement.Law #82/2005-OZ

Economy

The city's industrial production is concentrated on ceramics (two major holdings), food (Biserovo fisheries and a fish factory in Noginsk), beverage (one of Russia's biggest beverage producers is located near Noginsk), and construction materials.

Transportation

Noginsk is a

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, being the intersection of the Nizhny Novgorod Highway, M7 (E22), and the Moscow Minor Ring road. Rapid transit development plans include possible construction of a direct high-speed railway line connecting Noginsk to the prospective Serp i Molot railway/metro terminal or Shosse Entuziastov metro station. Public transportation system consists of buses and trams. Noginsk's current commuters' travel to and from Moscow on the M7 Moscow-Nizhny-Novgorod Highway. There is also an indirect railway line going through Fryazevo—the line running the first southward, whereas Moscow lies due west of Noginsk. It was built in the late 19th century for the purposes of the

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and is still in use.

Politics

Vladimir Laptev was the Head of Noginsk until 2005. As of 2014, Vladimir Khvatov serves as the Head of the city.

Media

A guyed mast of a longwave radio

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station is located in Noginsk at .

Points of interest

*the

Bogorodsk-Glukhovo factory Bogorodsk-Glukhovo factory was a textile factory founded by Savva Vasilyevich Morozov originally in Bogorodsk, now Noginsk. in 1830. His son, Zakhar Savvich Morozov Zakhar (russian: Захар) is a given name, the East Slavic form of the biblica ...

opened by Savva Vasilyevich Morozov in 1830. *the oldest monument to Vladimir Lenin (1924)

Notable people

* Pavel Alexandrov (1896–1982), mathematician * Grigory Fedotov (1916–1957), association football player *

Vladimir Fortov Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov (russian: Владимир Евгеньевич Фортов; 23 January 1946 – 29 November 2020) was a Russian physicist and politician who served as director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (1992– ...

(1946-2020), physicist, a member of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...

* Vladimir Korotkov (born 1941), professional football coach and a former player * Anatoly Ivanovich Lipinsky (born 1959), counter admiral *

Pimen I of Moscow Patriarch Pimen (russian: Патриарх Пи́мен, born Sergey Mikhailovich Izvekov, ; – May 3, 1990), was the 14th Patriarch of Moscow and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1970 to 1990. Biography He was born to a pious f ...

(1910–1990), head of the Russian Orthodox Church * Vladimir Serbsky (1858–1917), one of the founders of the forensic psychiatry in Russia *

Igor Spassky Igor Dmitriyevich Spasskiy (russian: Игорь Дмитриевич Спасский, born August 2, 1926) is a Russian (and former Soviet) scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, General Designer of nearly 200 Soviet and Russian nuclear submarin ...

(born 1926), submarine designer *

Igor Talankin Igor Vasilyevich Talankin (russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Тала́нкин) (3 October 1927 – 24 July 2010) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. His film ''Splendid Days'' (1960, co-directed with Georgiy Dane ...

(1927–2010), film director and screenwriter * Sergei Yeliseyev (born 1961), Russian sailors * Renat Yanbayev (born 1984), association football player

References

Notes

Sources

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External links

Official website of Noginsk

Unofficial website of Noginsk

Bogorodsk/Noginsk history resource
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