North Moscow Oblast

northern part of Moscow Oblast, Russia


North Moscow Oblast is a region in Moscow Oblast.

Cities

  • 🌍 Dmitrov a large, old town, famous for its beautiful kremlin
  • 🌍 Dubna the region's northernmost town is young with an impressive history of prominent work in the sciences, especially in physics, and is home to the world's largest Lenin statue
  • 🌍 Khimki a mid-sized city with a prominent historical role in the Soviet aerospace industry, but its mostly just a satellite city for Moscow commuters
  • 🌍 Klin a small city best known as the former residence of Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky; the manor where he composed Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker is now a museum
  • 🌍 Korolyov (Kaliningrad) the "cradle of space exporation," and home to the house-museums of Lenin and Marina Tsvetaeva
  • 🌍 Lobnya a small city most famous for its apricot, neo-gothic 18th century Marfino Palace, but also for its other stately estates and old churches
  • 🌍 Mytishchi a fairly large city known for its 18th century aqueduct
  • 🌍 Pushkino this city served as the summer retreat for poets Baratynsky, Tyutchev, and Mayakovsky; museums remember the writers at Muranovo Estate and Mayakovsky's dacha
  • 🌍 Sofrino
  • 🌍 Sergiev Posad home to the Trinity Monastery of Saint Sergius, the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church
  • 🌍 Shchyolkovo a relatively large city to the northwest of Moscow on the Klyazma River

Other destinations

  • 🌍 Abramtsevo Historical Art and Literary Museum Reserve
  • 🌍 Zhostovo
  • 🌍 Marfino manor house in 25 km from Moscow

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