Zhukovsky (city)

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Federal District:	Central
Raion:	Moscow Oblast
Founded:	1947 (urban settlement Stakhanovo since 1930)
Population:	101328 (2002 Census), 95700 (2000), 76000 (1971), 11000 (1939)
Location:	Coordinates: 55°36′N 38°7′E
Postal code:	140180
Dialling code:	+7 495 (for numbers starting with 556) +7 496 48 (for others)
Time Zone:	UTC+3 (Summer: UTC+4)
Map:	Map of the city
Website:	[1] (Russian)

Zhukovsky (Russian: Жуко́вский) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Moskva River, 40 km southeast of Moscow.

Urban settlement Stakhanovo was founded in 1930 from the Dacha's settlement Otdih (literally, "Relaxation"). It was named after Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov - a famous miner in the Soviet Union. Later in 1947 received the town status and renamed to Zhukovsky after the pioneer of aero- and hydrodynamics Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky.

Zhukovsky is home to M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute (Лётно-исследовательский институт имени М. М. Громова, ЛИИ, LII) and N. Ye. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodymanic Institute (Центральный аэрогидродинамический институт, ЦАГИ, TsAGI) — two major facilities involved in testing and designing aircraft. These facilities were employers for a great portion of the city's population before perestroika.

There are a number of not so big, but also important enterprises, like:

V. V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (Научно-исследовательский институт имени В. В. Тихомирова, НИИП, NIIP),
Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Equipment (Научно-исследовательский институт авиационного оборудования, НИИАО, NIIAO),
Agate Moscow Scientific Research Institute (Московский научно-исследовательский институт «Агат», Агат, Agate),
Vladimir Myasishchev Experimental machine-building plant (Экспериментальный машиностроительный завод имени В.М.Мясищева, ЭМЗ, EMZ).

There are also some design bureaus - Sukhoy, Ilyushin, Tupolev, etc.

Machine-building, woodworking plants, spare parts factory, paper-mill Food industry - Inko, Nestle, local bread-baking plant.

Zhukovsky is the center of track and field athletics in Moscow region. Most notable Zhukovsky-born athletes - Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Ekaterina Podkopayeva, Andrew Epishin, Dmitriy Bogdanov and others. In 2005 a new world class athletics stadium "Meteor" was opened.

Newspapers (2006) - "Aviagrad", "Zhukovskie Vesti", "Zhukovsky city", "Infogramme", "Zhukovsky Business Herald". Cable TV named "Sphere". Zhukovskiy radio broadcasting studio.

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