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Home | Russian inhabited locality | Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast
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Zheleznodorozhny was founded in 1861 as a settlement servicing Obiralovka ( ) railway station, made famous by Leo Tolstoy as the death place of the main character of the novel Anna Karenina. In 1938, it was renamed Zheleznodorozhny and granted town status in 1952. In the 1960s, settlements of Kuchino ( ), Savvino ( ), Temnikovo ( ), and Sergeyevka ( ) became a part of Zheleznodorozhny. Kuchino is historically associated with the name of Andrei Bely, the Russian poet who lived here in 1925-1931. |
