Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast

Krasnogorsk (Roushie: Красного́рск) is a ceety an the admeenistrative centre o Krasnogorsky Destrict o Moscow Oblast, Roushie, adjacent tae the northwastren boondary o Moscow, on the Moskva River. Population: 116,896 (2010 Census); 92,545 (2002 Census); 90,477 (1989 Census). An urban-teep dounset wis establisht here in 1932, tae whilk toun status wis grantit in 1940. In the 1940s, the Antifascist Central Schuil, in whilk mony foreign Communists studiet an lectured, wis locatit at Krasnogorsk. Efter the war the German V2 rocket scientists whilk the Soviet Airmy haed captured wur settled here wi thair faimilies. It is kent for the Moscow Kintra Club at Nakhabino, an the Krasnogorskiy Zavod company, which produced the Zorki, Zenit, an Krasnogorsk cameras thare till the early 1990s. The coat o airms acknawledges this bi featurin a lens an licht rays. The ceety is hame tae Zorky Bandy Club, umwhile naitional champions for men an current champions for weemen. Thair hame arena haes a capacity o 8000.[1] Internaitional relations Twin touns an sister ceeties Krasnogorsk is twinned wi: Antibes, Fraunce Goirle, Netherlands Höchstadt, Germany Plungė, Lithuanie Slivnitsa, Bulgarie Tukums, Latvie Wągrowiec, Poland References