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The oblast Moscow (Russian: Моско́вская о́бласть) located in Central Russia. It encloses the area of the capital Moscow, on the outside it borders on the oblasts Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk and Tver.
Regions
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The region around the capital is densely populated, there are large industrial companies in the fields of mechanical engineering, chemistry and metal processing. Coming from the west, the flows through the region Moskva, it ends at Kolomna in the OkaThere is a motorway ring around the city of Moscow, MKAD, which connects all the highways that leave the capital in a star shape. This ring used to form the city limits, but Moscow has now expanded beyond it.
places
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- 1 Balashikha
- City with the largest population in Moscow Oblast
- 2 Khimki
- the city played an important role in the aerospace industry
- 3 Podolsk
- Industrial city, Lenin once had an estate here.
- 4 Korolyov
- 5 Mytishchi
- 6 Lyubertsy
- 7 Elektrostal
- Founded in 1916 as a workers' settlement for the electrical and steel industry.
- 8 Kolomna
- the city is almost 900 years old. Worth seeing: its Johannes church from the 14th century and its Kremlin.
- 9 Serpukhov
- south of Moscow lies on the Oka, numerous river cruises stop here.
- 10 Krasnogorsk
- 11 Sergiev Posad
- formerly also Sagorsk, one of the most important cities of Golden ring
Other goals
background
language
Russian is spoken.
getting there
The Moscow Oblast surrounds the capital of the same name, so there are good transport connections
By plane
By car
- Smolensk
- Oryol, Kursk
- Kaluga, Bryansk
- Lipetsk, Voronezh
- Ryazan, Pensa, Kuznetsk
- Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan
- Yaroslavl, Vologda, Arkhangelsk
- Rshew, Velikiye Luki
- Tver, Veliky Novgorod, St. Petersburg
- Motorway ring, 110 km
- Small motorway ring (МKК) / 320km
- large motorway ring (МБК) / 550 km
mobility
Tourist Attractions
activities
kitchen
The cuisine is no different from the usual Russian cuisine.
nightlife
security
climate
literature
Web links
http://mosreg.ru (ru) - Official website of Moscow Oblast