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The Moscow Region was formed on January 14, 1929, as part of the consolidation of the administrative-territorial division of the RSFSR. Initially, however, the region was called Central Industrial, and received its current name on June 3, 1929. At that time, Moscow was still part of the region, and only in 1931 was the capital separated into a separate administrative-economic unit.
During the first decades of the USSR, the Moscow Region "acquired" many newly formed urban-type settlements that were built near industrial enterprises. Thus, Krasnogorsk, Dolgoprudny, Fryazino, and Elektrostal appeared on the map of the region. Those cities where modern enterprises were opened received a "new life" and rapidly thailand mobile database expanded, houses, cultural and social facilities were built in them at an accelerated pace. For example, Voskresensk began to develop rapidly after the "Giant" cement plant and a mineral fertilizer plant opened there. In the post-war years, several science cities were founded in the Moscow Region: Dubna, Troitsk, Pushchino, Chernogolovka.
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7. Moscow region is constantly shrinking
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Beginning in the 1930s, Moscow Region settlements that had previously been part of the Moscow Region regularly joined the capital. Thus, in 1960, the region "ceded" to Moscow Altufyevo, Kuzminki, Zyuzino, Kolomenskoye, Beskudnikovo, Troparevo-Nikulino, Bibirevo, Krylatskoye, Lyublino, Novogireevo, Biryulevo, Vladykino and dozens of other villages and settlements. In 1984, Kozhukhovo, Mitino, Novokosino, Butovo and other small settlements left the Moscow Region.
In 2012, significant territories in the southwest were annexed to Moscow, as a result of which the Moscow Region "lost" another 1,444 square kilometers, and the area of the capital increased by 2.4 times. The cities of Troitsk, Moskovsky and Shcherbinka were then included in New Moscow. At the same time, the population of the Moscow Region decreased by 230 thousand people.
Currently, the area of the Moscow region is 44,329 square kilometers, from north to south it stretches for 310 kilometers, from west to east – for 340 kilometers.