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Mytishchi railway station |
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Location of Moscow Oblast in Russia |
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| City Day | One of the Sundays in September |
| Administrative status | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Moscow Oblast |
| Administrative center of | Mytishchinsky District |
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| Municipal district | Mytishchinsky Municipal District |
| Urban settlement | Mytishchi Urban Settlement |
| Head | Alexander Kazakov |
| Representative body | Council of Deputies |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 34.59 km2 (13.36 sq mi) |
| Population (2010 Census, preliminary) |
173,341 inhabitants[1] |
| - Rank in 2010 | 105th |
| Population (2002 Census) | 159,900 inhabitants[2] |
| - Rank in 2002 | 106th |
| Density | 5,011 /km2 (12,980 /sq mi)[3] |
| Time zone | MSD (UTC+04:00)[4] |
| Founded | 1460 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 495 |
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Mytishchi (Russian: Мыти́щи; IPA: [mɨˈtʲiɕɕi]) is a city and the administrative center of Mytishchinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, which lies to the northeast of Russia's capital Moscow, on the Yauza River and the Moscow–Yaroslavl railroad. The city is the oblast's largest center for industry (machine building, arms industry in particular) and education. Population: 173,341 (2010 Census preliminary results);[1] 159,900 (2002 Census);[2] 154,068 (1989 Census);[5] 125,000 (1973); 60,000 (1939).
Mytishchi is famous for its aqueduct, built in the 18th century by order of Catherine the Great. It was the first water supply constructed in Russia to provide the Kremlin with pure water.
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The first settlement of ancient people (hunters and fishermen) is dated to the 6th–8th millennia BCE, i.e. in the late Stone Age. In the 8th–9th centuries, first Slavic tribes (Vyatichs and Krivichs) began settling here. In and around the Mytishchi district about a dozen of such settlements (11th–13th centuries) are known.
The settlement of Mytishchi has been known since 1460, since the 19th century as Bolshiye Mytishchi (Большие Мытищи). The history of the village is closely linked to the Yauzsky port. Mytishchi was an important place on the trade ship route. Through this site commercial ships had been hauled across on wheels, rollers, or skids from the Yauza River to the Klyazma River. Merchants had to pay a duty for this. The settlement got its name thanks to the duty, which had been known as myt (мыт).
In the middle of the 19th century, the population of the village was 389. Town status was granted in 1925.