Shchukino District

Shchukino District район Щукино (Russian)
Location of Shchukino District on the map of Moscow
Coordinates: 55°48′08″N 37°28′03″E / 55.80222°N 37.46750°ECoordinates: 55°48′08″N 37°28′03″E / 55.80222°N 37.46750°E
Alye Parusa residential buildings in Shchukino District
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Location
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Moscow
Statistics
Area	7.68 km^2 (2.97 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census)	105,665 inhabitants[1]
• Urban	100%
• Rural	0%
Density	13,758.46/km^2 (35,634.2/sq mi)[2]
Time zone	MSK (UTC+03:00)[3]
Official website
Shchukino District on WikiCommons

2003 coat of arms proposal for Shchukino District

Shchukino District (Russian: райо́н Щу́кино) is an administrative district (raion) of North-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 administrative districts of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. It borders with Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo District in the south, Strogino District in the east, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki District in the north, and in the west there is the boundary between North-Western and Northern Administrative Okrugs. The area of the district is 7.68 square kilometers (2.97 sq mi). Population: 105,665 (2010 Census);^[1] 89,454 (2002 Census).^[4]

History

In 1415, Vasily I of the Grand Duchy of Moscow built the village of Shchukino to the east of the Moskva River.

1945-1991
After the war and before the beginning of mass building of the 1960s there has continued the residential construction in the Oktyabrskoye Pole district (already at 5 floors) and a development of scientific establishments. Near the Kurchatov Institute there had been originated the A.Bochvar Institute of Inorganic Materials. The "journey of two academics" (Maximov street) has divided two "nuclear" territories. Nearby, there has set the stage of the Research Institute of Instrumentation on the Raspletin street and at the north, the Institute of Virology and Epidemiology was constructed on a Gamalei street. There were built cottage towns for management of the institutes on the Rogov street, Pehotnaya street and Aviacionnaya street. Most of them were demolished in the early 1980s. The Hospital № 6 was built for professors and management who worked on the atomic projects at the Novoschukinskaya street. Separate "Stalinist" houses have appeared on the Jivopisnaya street, the Kurchatov Square, the Zhadova Square and on adjacent streets.

Mass buildings of the Shchukino district has affected the village Shchukino (Aviacionnaya street, Novoschukinskaya street), and some neighborhoods on the Maximova street, Biruzova street and others. Mostly it was completed in the 1970s. In the late 1970s the large-scale construction has shifted on the west to the Strogino district where was set the stage of the Stroginsky bridge in 1981.

Modernity

• The "Fifth Avenue" shopping center located on the Marshal Birjuzova street. There are a multiplex cinema "Cinema Park on Oktyabrskoye Pole", a food court, shops, a billiard club, supermarket "Crossroads", an underground parking.^[5]
• "Shchuka" (Pike) shopping center located on the Marshala Vasilevskogo street. You can enter from the "Schukinskaya" metro station without going outside. This complex is one of the largest shopping centers located within the Ring Road. There is a multiplex cinema "Karo Film", a bowling alley, a food court, shops of different price categories, the "Alie Parusa" (Scarlet Sails) supermarket.^[6]

A large objects on the territory of the district is the "Alie Parusa".

Shchukino became a district in 1918 and has been a part of North-Western Administrative Okrug since 1988.

Notable streets

• Marshala Koneva Street

References

1. 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. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
2. The value of density was calculated automatically by dividing the 2010 Census population by the area specified in the infobox. Please note that this value is only approximate as the area specified in the infobox does not necessarily correspond to the area of the entity proper or is reported for the same year as the population.
3. Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №271-ФЗ от 03 июля 2016 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #271-FZ of July 03, 2016 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).
4. 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). Retrieved August 9, 2014.
5. http://www.immofinanz.com/en/properties/core-properties/fifth-avenue/ID1048
6. http://en.travel2moscow.com/where/haveagoodtime/entertainingcenters/object2541.html