Solntsevo District, Moscow

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Solntsevo (Russian: Со́лнцево) is a district in Western Administrative Okrug of the Russian capital city of Moscow.

It originated in 1938 as a dacha settlement and was named after the Russian word for Sun: солнце (solntse). It used to be a separate town from 1971. Since May of 1984 it has been included into Moscow.

Solntsevo has given its name to a major organisation of organized crime, the Solntsevskaya bratva. The former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov is a native of Solntsevo.

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