ZHUKOVSKY (CITY)

'Zhukovsky' () is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Moskva River, 40 km southeast of Moscow.
The urban-type settlement of ''Stakhanovo'' was founded in 1935 from the dacha settlement ''Otdykh'' (literally, "Relaxation"). It was named after Alexey Stakhanov - a famous miner in the Soviet Union. Later in 1947 received the town status and renamed to Zhukovsky after the pioneer of aero- and hydrodynamics Nikolai Zhukovsky.
Zhukovsky is a home to the M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute known as ''LII'' and N. Ye. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute known as (ЦАГИ) TsAGI — they are two major facilities involved in testing and designing aircraft. These facilities were employers for a great portion of the city's population before perestroika.
There are a number of not so big, but also important enterprises, like:

★ V. V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (NIIP),

★ Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Equipment (Научно-исследовательский институт авиационного оборудования, НИИАО, NIIAO),

★ Agate Moscow Scientific Research Institute (Московский научно-исследовательский институт «Агат», Агат, Agate),

★ Vladimir Myasishchev Experimental machine-building plant Myasishchev (Экспериментальный машиностроительный завод имени В.М.Мясищева, ЭМЗ, EMZ).
There are also some design bureaus - Sukhoy, Ilyushin, Tupolev, etc.
Machine-building, woodworking plants, spare parts factory, paper-mill
Food industry - Inko, Nestle, local bread-baking plant.
Zhukovsky is the center of track and field athletics in Moscow region. Most notable Zhukovsky-born athletes - Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Ekaterina Podkopayeva, Andrew Epishin, Dmitriy Bogdanov and others. In 2005 a new world class athletics stadium "Meteor" was opened.
Newspapers (2006) - "Aviagrad", "Zhukovskie Vesti", "Zhukovsky city", "Infogramme", "Zhukovsky Business Herald". Cable TV named "Sphere". Zhukovskiy radio broadcasting studio.

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External links

★ Zhukovsky official site

★ Zhukovskiy city in 1973 on Google Video