Odintsovo district is part of the Moscow region and is located a few kilometers from Moscow, the regional center is the city of Odintsovo. Initially, the settlement of Odintsovo was a village, which received city status only in 1957.
The first mentions of the settlement are found in written sources as early as 1470. The village of Odintsovo was named in honor of the boyar Andrei Odinets.
Where is the city of Odintsovo?
Odintsovo is the administrative center of the Odintsovo urban district of the Moscow region and the western suburb of Moscow.
The city is divided into 15 microdistricts. The approximate population is 140 thousand people, the total area of the territory is 19 square kilometers. The climate in the city is temperate continental with humid, warm summers and mild winters. Due to high humidity, the feeling of cold intensifies in winter. The annual precipitation rate is 650 mm.
Odintsovo is located in the same time zone as Moscow, the offset relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is +3.
ODINTSOVO
ODINTSOVO, a city in Russia, in the Moscow region, the center of the Odintsovo urban district. Population 135.5 thousand people. (2019). Located west of Moscow. There are 3 railway stations within the city limits, including Odintsovo. The Mozhaiskoye Highway passes through Odintsovo, along the southern outskirts of the city - the federal highway "Belarus" (Moscow - the border with Belarus).
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Photo by D.V. Solovyov Odintsovo. Cathedral of St. George the Victorious. 2004–07.
Photo by D.V. Solovyov Odintsovo. The former office of the brick factory of V. I. Yakunchikova. 1887. Now the Museum of History and Local Lore.
Perhaps, it was first mentioned as the settlement of Odintsovo in the grant of exchange tarkhana and non-conviction letter of the Zvenigorod and Uglich prince Andrei Vasilyevich Bolshoi (Goryaya) to the abbot of the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery Eusebius dated 19.8.1470. From the end of the 16th century. the village of Odintsovo belonged to the Islenev nobles. It was first mentioned in scribe books in 1627. In 1673–1735 it belonged to the Matveevs. In 1704, A. A. Matveev built a wooden church here in memory of his father in the name of the holy martyr Artemon, Odintsovo received the status of a village. In 1735–60 it belonged to the counts Yaguzhinsky, from 1760 to the counts Efimovsky, from 1800–53 to the counts Zubov, from 1853 to Prince B.V. Meshchersky (from the Meshchersky family). The village suffered during the Patriotic War of 1812; I. Murat’s cavalry corps stopped here at the beginning of September. In 1870, traffic was opened along the Moscow-Smolensk railway line that passed near Odintsovo, a station of the same name was built, around which a station village was formed. In the last third of the 19th century. the picturesque surroundings of Odintsovo turned into a popular holiday destination, the holiday villages of Krasnaya Gorka, Otradnoe and others arose; the village of Odintsovo and station villages became large centers of brick production (by the end of the 19th century, there were 3 factories in each of them, the first was founded in 1875 by P. S. Pavlova; the largest - in 1876, belonged to V. I. Yakunchikov). Soviet power was established in 1918. In 1938, the station village of Odintsovo was transformed into a workers' village. Since 1957, the city has included the villages of Krasnaya Gorka, Verkhnee Otradnoye and Nizhneye Otradnoye, Zheleznodorozhny, as well as the village. Yaskino. It was part of the Kuntsevo (1929–60), Zvenigorod (1960–63) districts of the Moscow region. In 1965, the Odintsovo village included the village of Odintsovo, the villages of Zapadny, the Bakovsky Rubber Products Plant, part of the Bakovka holiday village, and the village of Akishevo. In 1965–2019 the regional center. City of regional subordination (1965–2001, since 2019) of the Moscow region. From 2021 the center of the Odintsovo urban district. In 2021, a new railway line was launched through the city - MCD-1, connecting Odintsovo with the city of Lobnya through the territory of Moscow.
Architecture. Centers of science and culture
The city center is formed around the railway station building (1899–1900, architect L. N. Kekushev). To the northeast of it, a classicist church in honor of the Grebnevskaya Icon of the Mother of God (1797–98; refectory and bell tower - 1896–98, architect S.V. Krygin; next to the chapel 1887) has been preserved with a central rotundal part and adjacent to the rectangular apse 4 -columned portico of the Doric order. Also preserved are: the office of the former brick factory of V. I. Yakunchikova (1887; since 1989 Museum of History and Local Lore), the visiting house of the merchant V. M. Sorokoumov (late 19th century; now a children's music school). In the 1960s–80s. The city center was rebuilt, 8 microdistricts were built with multi-storey residential buildings. Since the beginning of the 2000s. erected: the Church of the Reverend Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna at the 25th Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Missile Forces, the 5-domed Cathedral of St. George the Victorious (2004–2007), the municipal exhibition center (2002), in the northeast the Kutuzovsky microdistrict (“New Trekhgorka” , 2003–10).
On the northwestern outskirts of Odintsovo and near the city (along the Saminka River) there is one of the largest burial mound complexes in the Moscow region of the 11th–12th centuries, a settlement of the 14th–17th centuries. On the north-eastern outskirts of the city there is the Polet holiday house (the former estate of V. M. Gusev) with the main house in the neoclassical style (1910s). Monuments: V.I. Lenin (1984), G.K. Zhukov (2000, sculptor A.A. Bichukov), memorial “Eternal Flame of Glory” (1975). Humanitarian Institute (2004; building of the same year), branches of universities, including the International Law Institute.
Sport
Women's volleyball club "Zarechye-Odintsovo" (founded in 1987) is one of the strongest in Russia: 2-time champion (2008, 2010) and 6-time winner of the National Cup (1995–2007), winner of the CEV Challenge Cup (2014), finalist of the Champions League (2008) and the CEV Cup (2007). The men's volleyball club "Iskra" (1979) is a multiple winner of the Russian championship, winner of the USSR Cup (1986 and 1987) and Russia (2002), finalist of the Champions League (2004). Both clubs host opponents in the volleyball and sports complex (2006; 3.5 thousand seats). In 2015, the Sports Recreation Park named after. Hero of Russia Larisa Lazutina with a roller ski track.
Farm
The majority of the economically active population is employed at Moscow enterprises. In Odintsovo - the construction and operational department of the Transinzhstroy company, one of the contractors for the construction of the Moscow Metro and other complex engineering facilities, the organization has built numerous industrial and transport infrastructure, social, and cultural facilities. Among the industrial enterprises are the following plants: “Moscow Pump Plant”, paint and varnish “Odilak”, light structures (metal tiles, corrugated sheets), fire-resistant products. Production of cable products (“Elix-Cable”), plastic and aluminum windows, partitions, interior wooden doors, kitchen furniture (“Empire Kitchen”, “Mikevol”), special and uniform clothing (“Magna”, “Odintsovo Garment Factory”) , leather goods (“Podpolye”), cosmetic products (“Red Line”), confectionery (“Odintsovo Confectionery Factory”), frozen vegetables and fruits (“4 Seasons”), baby food (“Babushkino Lukoshko”), etc.
Neighborhood
Near Odintsovo, in the village. Uspenskoe, - Moscow stud farm No. 1 (breeding Oryol and Russian trotting horses, Trakehner breeds, as well as dairy cows of the Ayrshire breed). In the vicinity of the city, many manor ensembles and churches from the 17th–19th centuries have been preserved. To the northwest and north of Odintsovo are: in the village. Headdresses – Spasskaya Church (1694–97) in the Moscow Baroque style; in the village Znamenskoye - Znamenskaya Church (1754–69) in a style transitional from Baroque to Classicism; in the village Uspenskoye - Uspenskoye-Vyazemskoye estate (Assumption Church, 1726–29; house of Prince V.A. Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky in the early modern style, 1880s; I.I. Levitan worked here in the 1890s); Usovo estate of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich (now the residence of the President of the Russian Federation Novo-Ogaryovo; Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands, 1763–65, extensively rebuilt in 1822–24; cottage house, 1889–92, architect S. K. Rodionov; guardhouses, farm, grotto). In the village Laikovo - baroque 12-sided church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (1762–64, refectory and bell tower - 1903, architect N. N. Blagoveshchensky); in the village Barvikha (on the bank of the Saminka River) - Podushkino estate of N. A. Kazakova (married Baroness Meyendorff; Baroque Church of the Nativity, 1759–60, refectory - 1870; “castle” and outbuilding in the spirit of neo-Gothic and French Renaissance, 1874–85 , architect P. S. Boytsov; is under the jurisdiction of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation). To the west and southwest of Odintsovo there are preserved: in the village. Yudino – Transfiguration Church of the “octagon on an equal-pointed cross” type (1718–20; courtyard of the Holy Dormition Pyukhtitsa Monastery); in the village Akulovo – 4-pillar Church of the Intercession with 2 bell towers (1807); the Yakovlevs' Perkhushkovo estate (baroque Church of the Intercession, circa 1760, upper tier of the bell tower - 1880, architect I. S. Semenov, paintings 1876; 2-storey house, lower brick floor - 1770s, upper wooden floor - 1822), Osorgino E. L. Shanks (2-story house in the neoclassical style, 1914).
Odintsovo Airport
The city of Odintsovo does not have its own airport. The nearest airfield is Vnukovo, which is located in Moscow. The distance from the city to the airport is 10 km. Vnukovo is an international airport that has the status of a federal facility. It is one of the four main airports in Moscow and the Moscow region. It works every day around the clock. It has the third level of coordination according to the IATA classification.
The airport serves aircraft of major Russian and foreign airlines: Azur Air, Hong Kong Airlines, Privilege Style, Turkish Airlines, Aeroflot, iFly. Popular destinations of regular and charter flights: London, St. Petersburg, Dubai, Hong Kong, Rostov-on-Don. The annual passenger traffic is more than 21 million people.
Odintsovo Employment Center
The employment center in Odintsovo effectively interacts with enterprises, organizations, entrepreneurs, and recruitment agencies in finding the necessary vacancies. The Employment Center studies the needs of employers for personnel, conducts retraining and recertification, and organizes advanced training courses for the unemployed population.
The Odintsovo Employment Center offers residents more than 200 vacancies, which can be found on the official website of the Employment Center.
He closely cooperates with the Employment Center on issues of employment and social adaptation, with the Society of Disabled and Persons with Disabilities, and with the social protection of the population of Odintsovo.
The main task of the employment center is to take action to prevent unemployment in Odintsovo and provide social protection for women on maternity leave, as well as the disabled and large families.
Automobile highways
The following roads pass through Odintsovo:
- A100 Mozhaiskoe Highway (46K-1011) is a public road that has the status of an object of regional importance. The route runs from Moscow to Kubinka, Odintsovo, Mozhaisk, Borodino. The length of the road is 56 km.
- MKAD - Odintsovo borders on the Moscow Ring Road, the length of which is 109 km. The distance to the Moscow Ring Road is 4 km. The road surface of the route is asphalt concrete.
- E30 is a European route that starts in Ireland and passes through Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Poland, and the Netherlands. The length of the highway is 5,800 km.
Economy and industry Odintsovo
For more than half a century, Odintsovo has been the main enterprise - most of the townspeople work here. The company is in charge of such large reconstruction and construction projects as the Moscow Metro, Krylatskoye, Strogino, and the main squares of the capital.
The second largest, whose products can be found in all cities of the country.
Another wonderful enterprise is the confectionery factory, which produces the well-known Korkunov candies. Salaries at the leading enterprises of Odintsovo are high, therefore, residents tend to work at their “native” factories, rather than leaving the city in search of work.
What is the city of Odintsovo known for?
Map of Odintsovo with streets
The main transport artery of the city, as can be seen on the map of Odintsovo with streets, is Mozhaiskoye Highway. This is a very busy road along which both urban and transit transport moves. You can avoid entering the city by driving around it along the M-1 road, but there is a toll here, so most cars still drive through the city.
A map of Odintsovo with streets and houses allows you to see the main streets of the city:
- Union;
- Verkhne-Proletarskaya;
- Marshal Zhukov;
- Marshal Nadelina;
- Central;
- Govorova.
Podushkinskoe and Krasnogorskoe highways originate in the city. The city has 5 passenger internal bus routes and many minibuses. Buses run constantly to Moscow.
On the map of Odintsovo with houses, zooming in using the “+” icon, you can find the railway station building. It is located near Station Square in the dead-end part of Sovetskaya Street. Near the station, modern shopping malls and the Odintsovo Arbat were built not far from each other.
There are several other railway platforms in the city:
- Pionerskaya;
- Otradnoye;
- Trekhgorka;
- Bakovka.
Sometimes, especially during rush hours, moving from one city district to another by train is much easier than by car or bus.
