Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast

Vidnoye (Template:Lang-ru) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated three kilometers south of Moscow city limits at 55°33′N 37°42′E. It is the administrative center of Leninsky District. Population: 52,198 (2002 Census); 58,000 (1995 est.).

Started as Rastorguyevo summer cottage community in 1902. Close to it is Gorki Leninskiye, Lenin's estate in his final years. The Sukhanovka prison was established by the NKVD in 1938 on the grounds of the old Ekaterinskaia Pustyn' Monastery. In 1949 settlement of Vidnoye was established for workers at the newly built Moscow Coke and Gas Works factory (work on the factory started in 1937, but was interrupted during World War II). Vidnoye was granted town status in 1965.

International Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was born at Vidnoye.

• Industry: Moscow Coke and Gas Works, Metallist factory, Gipsobeton company.
• Public transportation: commuter trains to Moscow (Rastorguyevo railway station of the Pavelets line), eight bus lines. Several trolley lines were introduced recently (fourteen trams as of January 2006).
• Local newspaper: Vidnovskiye Vesti (est. 1931).
• One local cable TV station: Vidnoye-TV.

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Russia

Twin towns — Sister cities

Vidnoye is twinned with:

• Glyfada, Greece.
• Kant, Kyrgyzstan.
• Losser, Netherlands.
• Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka.
• Shaoshan, China.
• Tuusula, Finland.

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  Zavodskaya St.
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  Backyard
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  New City Park
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  Fountain/Sovetskaya St.
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  Fountain/Sovetskaya St.
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  Older house on Lemeshko St.
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  School #1
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  Sukhanovo

External links

• Website of Vidnoye Template:Ru icon