Territorial units, which are formed taking into account urban planning, geographical, historical features, as well as population, transport communications, social and economic characteristics, engineering infrastructure and many other features, are the territory of Moscow and the districts into which it is divided. For the status of each, the boundaries are determined by a special law. Each territory is administered by a district government. The schematic map of Moscow shows this division well.
History
The administrative unit of the city began to be designated as a district in 1917, earlier it was called "part" (hence the word "district"). The boundaries of the districts of Moscow have repeatedly changed, the last division was in 1991. Then such terms as administrative districts were introduced, which consisted of municipal districts. In addition, there were units of territories with a special status.
In 1995 by legal lawmunicipal districts were abolished and replaced by districts, and their borders basically remained in the same place. Today in Moscow there are twelve districts, one hundred and twenty-five districts and twenty-one settlements. Each separate administrative region corresponds to a municipality. If you look at what the scheme of Moscow looks like in previous years, you can follow the changes that have occurred with the city's borders.
Population
The most populated of the districts that contains the territory of Moscow is Maryino. By a wide margin from its neighbors, it is in the lead: in 2010, its population was 243.32 thousand people. Maryino is followed by Vykhino-Zhulebino with 216.39 thousand, Yasenevo with 180.65 thousand, Otradnoye with 179.6 thousand, and South Butovo with 178.99 thousand people.
Molzhaninovsky district is less populated than others - there are only 3,5 thousand. The rest are ahead of him many times over: Vostochny - 12.35 thousand, Nekrasovka - 19.19 thousand, Kurkino - 21.31 thousand and Vnukovo with 23.37 thousand people. The most densely populated area is Zyablikovo - almost thirty thousand people per square kilometer. And the lowest density is again in the Molzhaninovsky district - only one hundred and sixty-one people per square kilometer.
Square
The largest area of Moscow is the Metrogorodok district, which includes part of the beautiful forest of Losiny Ostrov. Its area is 2757 hectares. Slightly smaller is South Butovo - 2554 hectares. This is followed by Molzhaninovsky district with 2178 hectares and Ramenki with an area of 1854 hectares.
The mostthe smallest, but also the most picturesque district of Moscow - Arbat, it is located on only two hundred and eleven hectares. Slightly larger is the Marfino district with two hundred and twenty-six hectares, and two hundred and seventy hectares near the Savelovsky district. Next on the list are the Vostochny and Altufevsky districts - there are three hundred and twenty and three hundred and twenty-five hectares, respectively.
CAO
Located in the heart of Moscow, the Central Administrative District contains ten districts. About 750 thousand people live on its area of 66.18 square kilometers. On the map of the city, this district occupies only six percent. It is not large, its borders are practically untouched since the nineteenth century. Here is the largest number of organizations and institutions, many theaters, government buildings, including the Kremlin, almost all ministries of Russia, the Government House, the State Duma, the Federation Council, a huge number of office buildings and various shopping centers. Other districts of Moscow also have many attractions on their territories, but the Central Administrative District is unconditionally the leader here.
Of the nine Moscow stations, six are located on the territory of the Central Administrative District. At the moment, many enterprises are being taken out of the city so that the territory of Moscow does not suffer from industrial and transport emissions. Offices and cultural centers are being opened on the sites of plants and factories. The largest number of monuments of architecture, history and culture, not even the capital, but the whole country, are located on the territory of the Central Administrative District. Here the Kremlin, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Lenin Library and much moreother. The most iconic retail outlets of the country are also located here - TSUM, GUM and others. Almost every house has a restaurant, cafe or bar, and often all of them are included, and even more than one.
Regions of the Central Administrative District
The city of Moscow is most famous for its center, where the main sights are located, which each district of the Central Administrative District stores in abundance: Yakimanka, Khamovniki, Tverskoy, Tagansky, Presnensky, Meshchansky, Krasnoselsky, Zamoskvorechye, Basmanny and, of course, the Arbat. The most important square in the country is Red Square. Here is the Mausoleum, the Kremlin, the Historical Museum, the Execution Ground, St. Basil's Cathedral, the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, the Intercession Cathedral, GUM.
Dzerzhinsky Square is very famous, now it is called Lubyanka. It is very close to the Kremlin. The main street of Moscow is Tverskaya with the Eliseevsky shop, the Moscow City Hall and a huge number of historical buildings. But Arbat Street is no less famous: there are theaters, entertainment venues, historical relics, traveling musicians, street artists and many, many small shops. Each house of the Arbat sheltered more than one legendary person during its long existence. Yakimanka Street is located along the river. Previously, almost every house had its own marina. And in the west of the district, the skyscrapers of the business center, Moscow City, shot up.
CJSC
There are thirteen districts in the western administrative district that keep names from the time of settlements near Moscow. The area of this district is fourteen percent of the entire city andoccupies 15,300 hectares, where one million fifty-eight people live. This is an industrial district: there are eighty thousand different enterprises, of which forty-two are industrial. There are also more than fifty research institutes and almost as many construction companies in the district.
Four hundred and twenty thousand people work in the district. The districts of this district are not as rich in sights as the Central Administrative District, but they are not poor either. The districts of Filevsky Park, Ramenki, Novo-Peredelkino, Krylatskoye, Troparevo-Nikulino, Vernadsky Prospekt, Mozhaysky, Dorogomilovo, Fili-Davydkovo, Solntsevo, Ochakovo-Matveevskoye, Kuntsevo, Vnukovo, even the names speak for themselves.
SWAO
The territory of the Southwestern administrative district is divided into twelve districts: Yasenevo, Tyoply Stan, Lomonosovsky, Zyuzino, South Butovo, North Butovo, Kotlovka, Gagarinsky, Cheryomushki, Obruchevsky, Konkovo, Academic. The area of the district is a tenth of the city map. The districts of Moscow are rich in cultural objects, and the South-West Administrative District is no exception. A population of one million two hundred people has plenty to do: one hundred and eleven hectares have beautiful parks, a lot of museums, the Great Moscow Circus, more than a hundred beautiful monuments of culture and art.
small andmedium business.
YuAO
There are sixteen districts in the Southern Administrative District: Chertanovo Central, Chertanovo South, Chertanovo North, Nagatinsky Zaton, Orekhovo-Borisovo North, Orekhovo-Borisovo South, Zyablikovo, Brateevo, Nagatino-Sadovniki, Donskoy District, Biryulyovo West, Biryulyovo East, Tsaritsyno, Nagorny district, Moskvorechye-Saburovo, Danilovsky district. The area of the district is one hundred and thirty-two hectares, which is twelve percent of the territory of Moscow. One and a half million people live here.
Many industrial enterprises and research centers are located in this district. It is considered the most comfortable district of Moscow: abundant green areas, Bitsevsky Park, squares and boulevards adorn the territory. There are more than two hundred natural monuments here: the Zagorye estate, Tsaritsynsky, Arshinovskiy parks and many other smaller ones. There are also many monuments of architecture, history, reserves, museums, magnificent temples. The southern district of Moscow is very well adapted to the comfortable living of people.
New Moscow
Many people wonder why the capital needed the territory of New Moscow? Everything is very simple. A city of many millions, which, like all megacities, is characterized by problems of overcrowding, inefficiency in the use of urban space, bad ecology and transport collapses, suffers and suffocates. The government is trying to solve all these problems by redistributing and optimizing human and transport resources.
Territory of New Moscow,annexed in 2011, increased the area of the capital by two and a half times. Now Moscow is among the top ten megacities not only in terms of population, but also in terms of area. Now the city borders on the neighboring Kaluga region. The new policy of the city authorities is such that business activity and industry will gradually leave the historical center of Moscow, which will only be an object of cultural and historical heritage.
Moscow Region
Moscow and the Moscow region are not equal in all respects. Naturally, much more attention is paid to the capital. Even the administrative center of the region is not fully defined. It would seem that Moscow and the Moscow region are one, but no, most of the state authorities of the region are located in Krasnogorsk.
The Moscow region consists of twenty-nine districts with thirty-two cities, two urban-type settlements and five closed administrative-territorial entities.
