Territorial units, which are formed taking into account urban planning, geographical, historical features, as well as population, transport communications, social and economic characteristics, engineering infrastructure and many other features, are the territory of Moscow and the districts into which it is divided. For the status of each border are defined by special law. The district government administers each territory. The map-scheme of Moscow shows this division well.
History
The district became the administrative unit of the city in 1917, previously it was called the "unit" (hence the word "district"). The boundaries of the Moscow regions have repeatedly changed, the last division was in 1991. Then such terms as administrative districts, which consisted of municipal districts, were introduced. In addition, there were units of territories with special status.
In 1995, the municipal districts were abolished and replaced by districts by legal law, and their borders basically remained in the same place. Today in Moscow there are twelve districts, one hundred twenty-five districts and twenty-one settlements. Each individual administrative region corresponds to a municipality. If you look at what the scheme of Moscow looks like in previous years, you can follow the changes that have occurred with the city borders.
Population
The most populated of the areas that contains the territory of Moscow is Maryino. With a wide margin from neighbors, he leads: in 2010, its population was 243.32 thousand people. Mariyino is followed by Vykhino-Zhulebino - 216.39 thousand, Yasenevo with 180.65 thousand, Otradnoye, which is home to 179.6 thousand, and South Butovo, where 178.99 thousand people live.
The Molzhaninovsky district is less populated than others - there are only 3.5 thousand. The rest are many times ahead of him: Vostochny - 12.35 thousand, Nekrasovka - 19.19 thousand, Kurkino - 21.31 thousand and Vnukovo with 23.37 thousand people. Zyablikovo is the most populated area - almost thirty thousand people per square kilometer. And the lowest density is again in the Molzhaninovsky district - only one hundred and sixty-one people per square kilometer.
Area
The largest territory of Moscow is the Metrogorodok district, which includes part of the beautiful Elk Island forest. Its area is 2757 hectares. Slightly smaller South Butovo - 2554 hectares. This is followed by the Molzhaninovsky district with 2178 hectares and Ramenki with an area of 1854 hectares.
The smallest, but also the most picturesque district of Moscow is Arbat, it is located on only two hundred and eleven hectares. The Marfino district with two hundred twenty-six hectares is a little larger, and two hundred and seventy hectares near the Savyolovsky district. Further on the list are the districts Vostochny and Altufevsky - there are three hundred twenty and three hundred twenty-five hectares, respectively.
TsAO
Located in the heart of Moscow, the Central Administrative District contains ten districts. On its area of 66.18 square kilometers, about 750 thousand people live. On the city map, this district occupies only six percent. It is not great, its borders have not been touched since the nineteenth century. Here, the largest number of organizations and institutions, many theaters, government buildings, including the Kremlin, almost all ministries of Russia, the House of Government, the State Duma, the Federation Council, a huge number of office buildings and various shopping centers. Other districts of Moscow also have many attractions on their territories, but the Central Administrative District is the leader here unconditionally.
Of the nine Moscow stations, six are located on the territory of the Central Administrative District. Currently, many enterprises are moving outside the city so that the territory of Moscow does not suffer from industrial and transport emissions. Offices and cultural centers are opening at the places of factories and factories. The largest number of monuments of architecture, history and culture, not even the capital, but the whole country are located on the territory of the Central Administrative District. Here the Kremlin, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Lenin Library and much more. Immediately located the most iconic outlets in the country - TSUM, GUM and others. Almost every house has a restaurant, cafe or bar, and often they are all included, and not in one.
CAO districts
The city of Moscow is most famous for its center, where the main attractions are located, which are stored in many areas of the Central Administrative District: Yakimanka, Khamovniki, Tverskoy, Tagansky, Presnensky, Meshchansky, Krasnoselsky, Zamoskvorechye, Basmanny and, of course, Arbat. The main square of the country is Red Square. Here is the Mausoleum, the Kremlin, the Historical Museum, Frontal Place, St. Basil's Cathedral, a monument to Minin and Pozharsky, Pokrovsky Cathedral, GUM.
Dzerzhinsky Square is very famous, now it is called Lubyanka. It is very close to the Kremlin. The main street of Moscow is Tverskaya with the Eliseevsky shop, the Moscow City Hall and a huge number of historical buildings. But Arbat Street is no less famous: theaters, entertainment venues, historical relics, wandering musicians, street artists and many, many small shops are here. Each house of Arbat has sheltered over its long existence more than one legendary person. Along the river, Yakimanka Street is located. Before, almost every house had its own marina. And in the west of the district, skyscrapers of the business center, Moscow City, shot up.
Company
In the western administrative district there are thirteen districts that keep names from the time of villages near Moscow. The area of this district is fourteen percent of the entire city and covers 15, 300 hectares, where one million fifty-eight people live. This is an industrial district: there are eighty thousand different enterprises, of which forty-two are industrial. There are also more than fifty research institutes and almost as many construction companies in the district.
Four hundred twenty thousand people work in the district. The districts of this district are not so rich in sights as the Central Administrative District, but they are not poor either. The districts Filevsky Park, Ramenki, Novo-Peredelkino, Krylatskoye, Troparevo-Nikulino, Prospect Vernadsky, Mozhaisky, Dorogomilovo, Fili-Davydkovo, Solntsevo, Ochakovo-Matveevskoe, Kuntsevo, Vnukovo even speak names for themselves.
SWAD
The territory of the South-Western administrative district is divided into twelve regions: Yasenevo, Teply Stan, Lomonosovsky, Zyuzino, South Butovo, Northern Butovo, Kotlovka, Gagarinsky, Cheryomushki, Obruchevsky, Konkovo, Academic. The area of the district is one tenth on the map of the city. Moscow districts are all rich in cultural sites, and South-Western Administrative Okrug is no exception. The population of one million two hundred people has a lot to go: on one hundred and eleven hectares there are beautiful parks, a mass of museums, the Great Moscow Circus, more than one hundred beautiful monuments of culture and art.
There are also not so few industrial enterprises on the territory of the okrug: several really large ones like NGOs (automation and instrumentation), whose products go to the country's space and defense facilities and which the city of Moscow is proud of, in addition there are eighteen thousand small and medium-sized enterprises.
South Administrative District
There are sixteen districts in the Southern Administrative District: Chertanovo Central, Chertanovo South, Chertanovo North, Nagatinsky Zaton, Orekhovo-Borisovo North, Orekhovo-Borisovo South, Zyablikovo, Brateevo, Nagatino-Sadovniki, Don region, Biryulevo West, Biryulevo East, Tsaritsa, Moskvorechye-Saburovo, Danilovsky district. The area of the district is one hundred thirty-two hectares, which is twelve percent of the territory of Moscow. One and a half million people live here.
Many industrial enterprises and research centers are located in this district. It is considered the most comfortable district of Moscow: abundant green areas, Bitsevsky park, squares and boulevards adorn the territory. There are more than two hundred natural monuments here: the estate Zagorye, Tsaritsynsky, Arshinovsky parks and many other smaller ones. There are also many monuments of architecture, history, there are reserves, museums, magnificent temples. The southern district of Moscow is very well adapted to comfortable living of people.
New Moscow
Many are perplexed, why did the capital need the territory of New Moscow? Everything is very simple. A multi-million city, which, like all megacities, is characterized by problems of crowding, inefficiency in the use of urban space, bad ecology and transport collapses, suffers and suffocates. The government is trying to solve all these problems by redistributing and optimizing human and transport resources.
The territory of New Moscow, annexed in the 2011th year, increased the area of the capital by two and a half times. Now Moscow is in the top ten megacities not only in terms of population, but also in area. Now the city borders on the neighboring Kaluga region. The new policy of the city authorities is such that business activity and industry will gradually leave the historical center of Moscow, which will only be an object of cultural and historical heritage.
