Malakhovka, Moscow Oblast

Malakhovka (English)
Малаховка (Russian)
-  Urban-type settlement[1]  -
Work settlement[1]

Location of Moscow Oblast in Russia
Malakhovka
Location of Malakhovka in Moscow Oblast
Coordinates:
Coat of arms of Malakhovka
Flag of Malakhovka
Anthem Anthem of Malakhovka[2]
Administrative status (as of March 2010)
Country Russia
Federal subject Moscow Oblast[1]
Administrative district Lyuberetsky District[1]
Municipal status (as of June 2009)
Municipal district Lyuberetsky Municipal District[3]
Urban settlement Malakhovka Urban Settlement[3]
Administrative center of Malakhovka Urban Settlement[3]
Head[4] Alexander Avtayev
Representative body Council of Deputies[5]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census,
preliminary)		 23,991 inhabitants[6]
Population (2002 Census)

18,552 inhabitants[7]

pop_density=
Time zone MSD (UTC+04:00)[8]
First mentioned 1328
Urban-type settlement status since 1961[9]
Postal code(s) 140030
Official website

Malakhovka (Russian: Мала́ховка), a Moscow suburb with historic dachas,[10] is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Lyuberetsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.[1] Population: 23,991 (2010 Census preliminary results);[6] 18,552 (2002 Census);[7] 26,454 (1989 Census).[11]

Municipally, Malakhovka is incorporated as an urban settlement which, apart from Malakhovka proper, also has jurisdiction over the smaller village of Pekhorka and adjacent territories.[3]

Under the name Malakhovskoye (Мала́ховское), it was first mentioned in 1328 in Ivan Kalita's will as a place left to Ivan's older son Semyon.

The railway station was built in 1884, and by the next year Malakhovka was recognized as a dacha settlement. By the end of the 19th century, the settlement was inhabited by such renowned representatives of Russian arts and literature as Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, and Feodor Chaliapin.[10] Chaliapin performed in the Summer Theatre before 1914.[12] The actress Faina Ranevskaya performed there from the following year, and also had a dacha there. At the time of the Revolution Malakhovka was a “hamlet” of about three hundred dachas.[12]

Marc Chagall taught at a Jewish boys shelter (mainly for refugees from Ukrainian pogroms) here in 1921, did the illustrations for David Hofstein's long poem "Troyer" (Grief) and worked on his mural "Introduction to the Jewish Theater".[13] The refuge was a center for many Yiddish writers including Der Nister, who lived with Chagall, David Hofstein, and Itzik Feffer.[14]

The Soviet writer and USSR State Prize Laureate Nikolay Dobronravov (husband of Aleksandra Pakhmutova) went to school in Malakhovka during the war.[15] The Olympic and World champion runner Irina Privalova was born in Malakhovka.

An early (1959) poem by Andrey Voznesensky is "Last Train to Malakhovka", regarding his regular trips to the settlement.[16] The Malakhovka railway station is located 29 kilometers (18 mi) southeast from Moscow. The settlement has minor industry, two sanatoriums, a history museum, an Orthodox Church, a Synagogue, and old dachas.

Malakhovka has a local newspaper, Malakhovsky Vestnik (Мала́ховский Ве́стник, "Malakhovka Herald").

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Resolution #10-PG
  2. ^ Charter of Malakhovka, Article 1.4
  3. ^ a b c d Law #81/2005-OZ, Article 1.4
  4. ^ Charter of Malakhovka Urban Settlement, Article 13.1.2
  5. ^ Charter of Malakhovka Urban Settlement, Article 13.1.1
  6. ^ a b Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2011). "Предварительные итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года (Preliminary results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/results-inform.php. Retrieved 2011-04-25. 
  7. ^ a b Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls. Retrieved 2010-03-23. 
  8. ^ Правительство Российской Федерации. Постановление №725 от 31 августа 2011 г. «О составе территорий, образующих каждую часовую зону, и порядке исчисления времени в часовых зонах, а также о признании утратившими силу отдельных Постановлений Правительства Российской Федерации». Вступил в силу по истечении 7 дней после дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Российская Газета", №197, 6 сентября 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011 On the Composition of the Territories Included into Each Time Zone and on the Procedures of Timekeeping in the Time Zones, as Well as on Abrogation of Several Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication).
  9. ^ Администрация Московской области. Организационно-контрольное управление (1999). Справочник по административно-территориальному устройству Московской области. Москва: ГУП ИПК "Ульяновский Дом печати". p. 14. 
  10. ^ a b Toda, Yasushi and Nozdrina, Nadezhda N.(2008) The Cottages in Suburban Moscow: A New Lifestyle for the Wealthy, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 24: 3, 444—455
  11. ^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров. (All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers.)" (in Russian). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989). Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics. 1989. http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus89_reg.php. Retrieved 2010-03-23. 
  12. ^ a b Timothy J. Colton (1998), Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis, Harvard University Press, page 127.
  13. ^ Harshav, Benjamin. 2004. Marc Chagall and His Times, Stanford University Press. Pages 75, 294, 298.
  14. ^ Dara Horn, The World to Come, W.W. Norton, 2006, page 313.
  15. ^ Persona.rin.ru. Nikolai Dobronravov
  16. ^ Andrey Voznesensky, Antiworlds and The Fifth Ace, Basic Books, New York 1967, pp 84-87.

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