We will thoroughly understand what the Balashikha district includes. In continuation of the topic, let's touch on its history, striking sights, characteristics and features.
General information about the Balashikha region
The city district of Balashikha is a municipal formation, consisting of 13 settlements, with the center in the city of Balashikha. Geographically located in the center of the Moscow region. The district was formed in 2005 instead of the abolished Balashikha district. In January 2015, there was a new change in its composition - the Zheleznodorozhny urban district was attached to Balashikha. United, they continued to be called the urban district of Balashikha.
To date, 462,731 people live in the district. For comparison: in 1970 there were 95,850 inhabitants, in 1979 - 35,957 people, in 1989 - 31,964 people, in 2002 - 187,988 people, in 2010 - 225,381 people.
The Balashikha District of the Moscow Region includes the following settlements:
- city of Balashikha;
- New Milet village;
- Dyatlovka village,Pavlino, Black, Fenino, Poltevo, Purshevo, Sobolikha, Pestovo, Rusavkino-Romanovo, Fedurnovo, Rusavkino-Popovshchino.
Since 2015, Ivan Ivanovich Zhirkov has been elected head of the district.
Such important highways as Schelkovskoe, Gorkovskoe (Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod), Nosovikhinskoe highway pass through the city. There are a number of enterprises operating in the district that produce a wide variety of products:
- confectionery;
- preserves and canned fish;
- cosmetics;
- furniture;
- window blocks;
- locks;
- fire fighting equipment;
- ventilation equipment;
- concrete, asph alt mixes, etc.
Geography and nature of the district
United Zheleznodorozhny-Balashikha District covers a total area of 24,418 hectares (244.18 km2). Previously, the city district was located on 21,859 hectares. The administrative center of Balashikha is spread over 3,842 hectares.
The county is bordered by the following municipalities:
- In the north: Pushkinsky district, urban district of Korolev.
- In the northeast: Shchelkovsky district.
- In the east: Noginsk district.
- In the south: Ramensky and Lyubertsy district.
- In the south-west: Reutov urban district, Novokosino and Kosino-Ukhtomsky districts.
- In the west (along the Moscow Ring Road): Moscow.
- In the northwest: Mytishchi urban district.
Territorially Balashikha district is located on the Meshcherskaya lowland. It is a pebbly-sandy plain of glacial origin.with sod-podzolic and sandy soils. The Okrug can safely be called "green": all administrative formations are surrounded by forests - mixed, pine-broad-leaved, spruce-broad-leaved. The presence of manor parks is also characteristic, where many introducers grow (uncharacteristic for the area, plants introduced by humans), which have successfully taken root in a new place.
The main reservoir of the region is Pekhorka, the left tributary of the Moskva River. Along its course, it forms many picturesque ponds. The Gorenka flows into it, originating in the Masurinsky Lake. This river is connected to the reservoir of the Eastern Waterworks. The region is rich in lakes:
- Maryino.
- Yushino.
- Baboshkino.
- Mazurinskoe.
- Bezmenovsky quarry and a number of small nameless lakes.
History of the Balashikha region
Let's touch on the main milestones in the history of this district near Moscow:
- 1939 - the working settlement of Balashikha becomes a city of regional subordination.
- 1941 - Balashikha becomes the district center of the former Reutovsky district, and the formation itself is renamed the Balashikha district.
- 1952 - Balashikha becomes a city of regional subordination, and the working settlement of Zheleznodorozhny (former summer cottage Obdiralovka) - a city of regional subordination.
- 1963-1965 - the district was abolished and rebuilt.
- 1970 - the city of Reutov was withdrawn from the district.
- 2004 - Balashikha district officially became a citycounty.
- 2011 - Balashikha administrative district was finally abolished.
- 2014 - the merger of Zheleznodorozhny and Balashikha with the preservation of the name of the latter.
Sights of the county
The most iconic sights of the Balashikha region:
- Razumovsky's estate (Gorenki) with a landscape park, currently the Red Rose sanatorium.
- Golitsyn Manor (Pekhra-Yakovlevskoye), rotunda church built in 1786
- Estate of Field Marshal Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky (Troitskoye-Kainarzhdi).
- Museum of the Air Defense Forces.
- Local History Museum in Balashikha.
The Balashikha district near Moscow, as we have seen, is a dynamically developing and constantly growing administrative entity, comfortable with its green area, park areas for residents, and an attractive tourist place.
