Babushkinsky district (Moscow)

Babushkinsky district is part of the North-Eastern administrative district of Moscow.

Population and housing stock

The territory of the district is 507 ha. The population as of January 1, 2010 is 85.92 thousand people.

As of April 2013, the district's website reports that there are 250 yards, 263 households and 29,894 apartments in the Babushkinsky district.

Infrastructure

As of April 2013, in the Babushkinsky district there are:

Health care

• 6 polyclinics and the 20th city clinical hospital.

Education

• 15 preschool institutions,
• 10 comprehensive schools,
• Moscow Suvorov Military School, which is an educational institution of all-Russian scale,

The four institutions of higher education are:

• Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian federation
• Academy of Social Management,
• Moscow Economic Institute,
• The Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of the Russian Federation, which is also an educational institution of all-Russian scale.

Trade

• 128 trading enterprises,
• 113 enterprises of household and communal services of the population,
• 26 catering establishments,
• 5 malls.

Industrial enterprises, dozens of state and commercial organizations, interest clubs and sports sections operate in the district.

Streets

One of the main streets of the district bears the name of the leader of the Cheka V. Menzhinsky.

History

The history for these places began at the end of the 19th century, when the geography of this area was significantly different from the modern one. Despite the proximity of Moscow, it was a real deaf man. Forest areas interrupted by fields were called "islands" by locals, and according to the predominant presence of animals, one of them was called Elk Island. The forests were full of animals and birds, and the Yauza River, full of water at that time, originating here in the elk island park, was replete with fish.

Only in 1860, when the Yaroslavl Railway stretched northeast of Moscow, primitive life stirred up.

1883: Railway station and country village

In 1883, a small railway station "Platform of the 10th verst" appeared, renamed in 1898 to the Losinoostrovskaya station, near which a summer cottage village with the same name later appeared. Soon, summer construction began. And Muscovites rushed to nature.

1888: Tract Pogonno-Elk Island

Until 1888, the territory of the future Babushkinsky district was called "Tract Pogonno-Losiny Island."

1920: City of Losinoostrovsky

The village began to be called the city in the late 1920s and at first bore the name Losinoostrovsky.

1940: Renamed the city of Babushkin. Pilot Zhenya Rudneva

Almost before the Great Patriotic War, the city of Losinoostrovsky was renamed the city of Babushkin, in honor of the famous polar pilot, hero of the 1920s and 30s Mikhail Sergeyevich Babushkin.

Zhenya Rudneva, a student of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University, volunteered from the city of Babushkin during the war. She wrote poetry, showed hope as a future scientist, but she had to master by no means the female profession of a pilot. And she became one of the best Soviet pilots of the Great Patriotic War. Zhenya was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. One of the streets of Babushkinsky district bears her name. There is a monument to the brave patriot.

1957: Babushkin's inclusion in Moscow

In 1957, during the large-scale construction of residential areas and the Moscow ring road, the city of Babushkin became part of the city of Moscow and became one of the districts of the capital. The name of the district remained the same - Babushkinsky. If you look at the map of the district and the districts of the city of Moscow located next to it, then a certain orientation in the name of streets such as: Lenskaya, Yeniseyskaya, Verkhoyanskaya, Taimyrskaya, Taezhnaya, Amundsen, Sedova, Chelyuskinskaya, Malygina and, finally, Pilot Babushkin Street. These names reflect the attention, the appreciation that was shown by the inhabitants to their fellow countryman, a native of these places, a famous polar pilot. One of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Sergeyevich Babushkin. The names of the streets reflect the geography and history of M.S. Babushkin's flights, which were followed with great attention not only by fellow countrymen, but also by the whole country and even the whole world.

1970-1990: Mass development. Film shooting. Metro station

From 1970 to 1990 - the area of ​ ​ mass housing construction.

At the Losinoostrovskaya railway station, episodes of such famous films as "Station for Two," "Office Romance," "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" were shot.

1991: Reduction of district boundaries

Within the current borders, Babushkinsky District has existed since August 1991, after the division of Moscow into administrative districts and the formation of smaller districts than before. The modern Babushkinsky district is only part (center) of the Babushkinsky district, which existed until 1991 on the site of the city of Babushkin. Other parts of the historical Babushkinsky district are currently separate districts, and are called "Yaroslavsky" (east), "Sviblovo" (south) and "Losinoostrovsky" (north).

2010

In 2010, 8 trade enterprises, 1 catering enterprise (multifunctional enterprise of family leisure), 9 consumer services enterprises were opened in the district.

In 2010, the number of enterprises serving according to the "Muscovite Social Card" (13 stores and 18 consumer services enterprises) increased in the district.

2011: Opening of the Raduzhny shopping center

In July 2011, a new Raduzhny shopping center was opened at 19 Yeniseyskaya Street, 1, in which the Perekrestok grocery store, a number of industrial trade enterprises, 3 consumer services enterprises, and the Seven Knots restaurant operate.

2013: Exposing corruption in GUIS

On March 26, 2013, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported:

the same SVAO, for example, one of these schemes was identified in the Babushkinsky district. The system of squeezing budget money was built very simply: in 2009, the head of the State Institution of Engineering Services (GUIS) carried out a massive withdrawal of houses from DEZ to private companies specially created for this. Meetings of owners were held only on paper. Previously, all the houses withdrawn for budget money were put in order - while the rest of the district's housing stock, which remained for DEZ, was not spent, and in this way it was put in a deplorable state. As a result, DEZ remained in charge of exclusively dilapidated houses built in the 30-70s of the twentieth century, and subsidies from the Moscow budget began to be received for renovated houses received by the management through private companies.

The founders and CEOs were the closest relatives of the former leadership of DEZ and GUIS. This "business" has been profitable for several years, pleasing the income not only of the founders, but, apparently, of influential patrons: all this was done openly and without any fear of incurring any responsibility. In 2013, by the efforts of the authorities, the houses seized in this way began to slowly return to the fold of DEZ^[1].

See also

• Site of Babushkinsky district
• Map of Babushkinsky district

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