Kúntsevo () is a

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of the

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History

In the 18th century, a palace and a park were built; they were often visited by the Empress

Catherine II Catherine II. (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III ...

. Kuntsevo is the site of the Church of Theotokos Orans. In the 19th century, Kuntsevo became a summer resort for the Muscovites. A summer theater was opened in 1890. Artists and writers lived and worked in Kuntsevo; among them Nikolay Karamzin,

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poe ...

, Vasily Perov, and Ivan Kramskoy. Kuntsevo became a town in its own right in 1926. In 1960, it became a part of Moscow. Now a district of Moscow, it contains many factories, residential areas, and has a well-connected infrastructure. Kuntsevo is reported to be the location of the Strategic Missile Command center.Globalsecurity.org
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Transport

The district has two metro stations: Molodyozhnaya on the

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and Kuntsevskaya on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and the Filevskaya Line. Strogino metro station in neighboring Strogino District serves parts of the Myakinino area of the Kuntsevo district. The Myakinino area is also served by bus number 638 that goes from to

Shchukinskaya Shchukinskaya () is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the village of Schukino before it was consumed by Moscow and became a municipality in the 1940s, it was opened on 30 December 1975. The design ...

metro station via Strogino. From Rublevo buses: * 127 Rublevo – Kotsyubyns'kogo Street (to Molodyozhnaya metro station) * 129 Myakinino – Carpool General Staff (to Krylatskoye metro station ) * 626 3rd district Strogina – Molodyozhnaya metro station Part of the southern boundary of the district is the Moscow to Smolensk Main Line main railway toward

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. Commuter stations on this line connect with the

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in Moscow. Heading west on the mainline, commuter trains go to

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and

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. The branch line to Usovo and the freight-only line to Rublevo leave the mainline in Kuntsevo district at Rabochiy Posolok.

Kuntsevo Dacha

Kuntsevo railway station on Moscow-Minsk Railway

Soviet leaders started to settle in Kuntsevo in the 1920s.

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instructed his architect, Miron Merzhanov, to build him a

dacha A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of former Soviet Union, post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ...

on the bank of the

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and moved there in 1934. With his move other members of the Soviet elite had their dachas built in the surroundings. Stalin conducted much of his business from his ''Blizhnyaya Dacha'' () ("nearby dacha"). It was heavily protected and included a double-perimeter fence, camouflaged 30-millimeter antiaircraft guns, and a security force of three hundred

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special troops. Stalin died at the dacha on March 5, 1953.

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History

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Kuntsevo Dacha

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