Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia

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🇷🇺 Vidnoye is a town and the administrative centre of Leninsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 3 km south of Moscow city limits.

Rastorguyevo summer cottage community was established in this area in 1902. The construction of the Moscow Coke and Gas Works factory started in 1937 but was interrupted by World War II, and it was only in 1949 that the settlement of Vidnoye was established for the factory workers. Vidnoye was merged with Rastorguyevo and granted town status in 1965.

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Administration Within the framework of administrative divisions, Vidnoye serves as the administrative centre of Leninsky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with seven rural localities, incorporated within Leninsky District as the Town of Vidnoye. As a municipal division, the Town of Vidnoye is incorporated within Leninsky Municipal District as Vidnoye Urban Settlement.

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Economy Main industrial enterprises in Vidnoye include the Moscow Coke and Gas Works, the Metallist factory, and the Gipsobeton company. Public transportation is represented by commuter trains to Moscow (Rastorguyevo railway station of the Pavelets Line) and eight bus lines. Several trolleybus lines were put into operation during the first decade of the 2000s.

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Culture • St. Catherine's monastery • Soviet Square and Leninskiy District Historical and Cultural Center

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Media Vidnovskiye Vesti, established in 1931, is the local newspaper. One local cable TV station (Vidnoye-TV) broadcasts in the town.

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Vidnoye has a population of over 56,752 people. Vidnoye also forms one of the centres of the wider Moscow metropolitan area which has a population of over 17,300,000 people.

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Antipodal to Vidnoye is: -142.283,-55.55

Locations Near: Vidnoye 37.7167,55.55

🇷🇺 Domodedovo 37.766,55.44 d: 12.6  

🇷🇺 Severnoye Butovo 37.583,55.567 d: 8.6  

🇷🇺 Zyuzino 37.583,55.65 d: 13.9  

🇷🇺 Kotlovka 37.583,55.667 d: 15.4  

🇷🇺 Cheryomushki 37.595,55.68 d: 16.3  

🇷🇺 Yuzhnoye Butovo 37.533,55.533 d: 11.7  

🇷🇺 Akademichesky 37.567,55.683 d: 17.6  

🇷🇺 Yasenevo 37.518,55.587 d: 13.2  

🇷🇺 Podolsk 37.545,55.432 d: 17  

🇷🇺 Lyuberetsky 37.883,55.683 d: 18.1  

Antipodal to: Vidnoye -142.283,-55.55

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15743.5  

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15316.8  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 14819.9  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 14731.1  

🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14907.9  

🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14907.9  

🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 14799.8  

🇨🇱 Coyhaique -72.067,-45.567 d: 15155  

🇨🇱 Punta Arenas -70.91,-53.162 d: 15589.7  

🇨🇱 Temuco -72.667,-38.733 d: 14682.2  

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