Malakhovka
Малаховка
Work settlement[1]
Flag of Malakhovka
Coat of arms of Malakhovka
Anthem: Anthem of Malakhovka[2]
Location of Malakhovka
Map
Malakhovka is located in Russia
Malakhovka
Malakhovka
Location of Malakhovka
Malakhovka is located in Moscow Oblast
Malakhovka
Malakhovka
Malakhovka (Moscow Oblast)
Coordinates: 55°38′37″N 38°00′32″E / 55.64361°N 38.00889°E / 55.64361; 38.00889
CountryRussia
Federal subjectMoscow Oblast[1]
Administrative districtLyuberetsky District[1]
First mentioned1328
Urban-type settlement status since1961[3]
Government
 • BodyCouncil of Deputies[4]
 • Head[5]Alexander Avtayev
Elevation
138 m (453 ft)
Population
 • Total24,004
 • Municipal districtLyuberetsky Municipal District[7]
 • Urban settlementMalakhovka Urban Settlement[7]
 • Capital ofMalakhovka Urban Settlement[7]
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[8])
Postal code(s)[9]
140030
OKTMO ID46748000061
Websitemalahovka.net

Malakhovka (Russian: Мала́ховка), a Moscow suburb renowned for its historic dachas,[10] is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Lyuberetsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.[1] Population: 24,004 (2010 Census);[6] 18,552 (2002 Census);[11] 26,454 (1989 Census).[12]

History

Under the name Malakhovskoye (Мала́ховское), Malakhovka was first mentioned in 1328 in Ivan Kalita's will as a place left to Ivan's older son Semyon.[13]

A Pre-revolutionary Dacha in Malakhovka

With the completion of a railway station in 1884 Malakhovka was recognized as a dacha settlement. By the end of 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 Malakhovka's Summer Theater before 1914.[14] 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 described as a "hamlet" of about three hundred dachas.[14]

Urban-type settlement status was granted to Malakhovka in 1961.[3]

Pearl of country theatres of Russia, Malakhovsky Summer Theatre. Designed by the architect Leon Dauksha in the characteristic modernist style of the era. Built in 1911 on the initiative of F. Chaliapin. Burned in 1999 as a result of arson.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Malakhovka is incorporated within Lyuberetsky District of Moscow Oblast.[1] Within the framework of municipal divisions, Malakhovka is a part of a larger Malakhovka Urban Settlement, which, in addition to Malakhovka proper, also includes the village of Pekhorka and adjacent territories.[7]

Economy and infrastructure

The Malakhovka railway station is located 29 kilometers (18 mi) southeast from Moscow. The settlement has minor industry: an ore mining equipment factory and a food processing plant. There are also two sanatoriums, a history museum, an Orthodox church, and a synagogue.

Media

Malakhovka has a local newspaper, Malakhovsky Vestnik (Малаховский Вестник, "Malakhovka Herald").

Notable people

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".[15] The refuge was a center for many Yiddish writers including Der Nister, who lived with Chagall, David Hofstein, Moshe Lifshits and Itzik Feffer.[16]

Chagal (front) and Der Nister (behind) at the Malakhovka boys shelter

The Soviet writer and USSR State Prize Laureate Nikolay Dobronravov (husband of Aleksandra Pakhmutova) went to school in Malakhovka during the war.[17] 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.[18]

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Resolution #123-PG
  2. ^ Charter of Malakhovka, Article 1.4
  3. ^ a b Администрация Московской области. Организационно-контрольное управление (1999). Справочник по административно-территориальному устройству Московской области. Москва: ГУП ИПК "Ульяновский Дом печати". p. 14.
  4. ^ Charter of Malakhovka Urban Settlement, Article 13.1.1
  5. ^ Charter of Malakhovka Urban Settlement, Article 13.1.2
  6. ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  7. ^ a b c d Law #81/2005-OZ, Article 1.4
  8. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  9. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  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. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). 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] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  12. ^ 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]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
  13. ^ "Ivan Kalita's will".
  14. ^ a b Timothy J. Colton (1998), Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis, Harvard University Press, p. 127.
  15. ^ Harshav, Benjamin. 2004. Marc Chagall and His Times, Stanford University Press. Pages 75, 294, 298.
  16. ^ Dara Horn, The World to Come, W.W. Norton, 2006, page 313.
  17. ^ Persona.rin.ru. Nikolai Dobronravov
  18. ^ Andrey Voznesensky, Antiworlds and The Fifth Ace, Basic Books, New York 1967, pp 84-87.

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