Pushkino, Moscow Oblast
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Pushkino (Russian: Пу́шкино) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Ucha and Serebryanka Rivers some 30 km northeast of Moscow. Population: 96,400 (2005 est.); 72,425 (2002 Census); 57,000 (1974); 30,000 (1959); 21,000 (1939).
According to one of the historic versions, the village of Pushkino was first documented in 1499 when it belonged to Grigory Morkhinin "Pushka", a boyar whose male-line descendants include Aleksandr Pushkin, a poet whose statue graces one of the town's main squares. During the following centuries, the neighbourhood evolved into a favoured summer retreat of Russian nobility. In 1678, a five-domed church of Saint Sergius was built at the manor of Komyagino. (picture). Another notable estate is Muranovo, where the Russian poets Evgeny Baratynsky and Fyodor Tyutchev used to spend their summers. A dacha of Vladimir Mayakovsky, who lived in Pushkino during summer seasons of 1920-1928 is also a museum. Pushkino was granted town status in August of 1925. Today it is notable for its Institute of Forest Science, one of the few in Russian Federation.
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