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The urban-type settlement of Stakhanovo was founded in 1935 from the dacha settlement Otdykh (literally, "Relaxation"). It was named after Alexey Stakhanov - a famous Soviet miner. On April 23, 1947, the settlement was granted town status and renamed Zhukovsky, in honor of the pioneer of aero- and hydrodynamics Nikolai Zhukovsky. Zhukovsky is a home to the M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute known as LII and N. Ye. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute known as (ЦАГИ) TsAGI — they are two major facilities involved in testing and designing aircraft. These facilities were employers for a great portion of the city's population before perestroika. Also, there is situated the Aeromechanics faculty of MIPT. In the 1960s, the Research Center in Zhukovsky produced a coating for aircraft, making it invisible to radars (the technology which was later dubbed as "stealth"). Tolkachev brought it to the attention of CIA. Tolkachev was executed; possible nuclear attack on the United States was thwarted. There are a number smaller, but also important enterprises, such as: *V. V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (NIIP), *Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Equipment ( , , NIIAO), *Agate Moscow Scientific Research Institute ( , , Agate), *Vladimir Myasishchev Experimental machine-building plant Myasishchev ( , , EMZ). There are also some aviation design bureaus - Sukhoy, Ilyushin, Tupolev, etc located in the area Machine-building, woodworking plants, spare parts factory, paper-mill Food industry - Inko, Nestlé, local bread-baking plant. Zhukovsky is the center of track and field athletics in the Moscow region. Most notable Zhukovsky-born athletes - Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Ekaterina Podkopayeva, Andrew Epishin, Dmitriy Bogdanov and others. In 2005 a new world class athletics stadium "Meteor" was opened. In 2008 President Putin signed a presidential decree establishing the National Aircraft Construction Center |
