Razvilka, Moscow Oblast

55°35′27″N 37°44′44″E / 55.59095701°N 37.74563301°E / 55.59095701; 37.74563301

Razvilka (Russian: Разви́лка) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Leninsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located in the "green forests and parks space" surrounding the city of Moscow, on the Kashira Highway. Population: 9,778 (2010 Census);^[1] 8,773 (2002 Census).^[2] Postal code: 142717. Telephone code: +7 495.

Razvilka was founded in 1947 as a settlement for employees of the Scientific Institute of Natural Gases (VNIIGAZ) and its experimental factory. Currently, enterprises of the natural gas industry are located in the settlement, which earned an unofficial name of the "gas capital of Russia".

The infrastructure of the settlement includes a clinic, pharmacies, a dental clinic, a secondary school, a college, kindergartens, a Russian Orthodox church, a church education centre, supermarkets, car-maintenance facilities, a fire depot, and a police department. The local cable TV station is KTV-Razvilka.

The settlement is connected with Moscow by five bus lines: #44 to railway station Rastorguyevo, #95, #355, #356 to Domodedovskaya station of the Moscow Metro, and #897 to Maryino metro station.

Images

View of the VNIIGAZ building from the Moscow Ring Road
View of Razvilka from the Kashira Highway
Central part of the settlement, occupied by the 1970s Soviet-era residential buildings
Post office and bank
New residential buildings
Old square
Supermarket

References

^ 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.
^ Federal State Statistics Service (21 May 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).