En Name: | Yuzhnoye Tushino District |
Image View: | Bratzevo estate 05.jpg |
Image Coa: | YuzhnoeTushino gerb.png |
Federal Subject: | Moscow |
Website: | http://yutushino.ru/ |
Commonscat: | South Tushino |
Date: | August 2011 |
Yuzhnoye Tushino District (Russian: Южное Тушино райо́н, lit. South Tushino) is an administrative district (raion) of North-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia.
Before 1960 district territories was part of Moscow oblast. It had villages and and .The first wave of mass housing in the district began in the 1940-1950s as a part of the extending city Tushino. At that time, it was built along the streets of neighborhoods Skhodnenskaya (Skhodnya), Lodochnaya (Boat) and Okruzhnaya (Circle), but is currently under a mass demolition of these buildings and the construction in their place, modern high-rise buildings. The next wave of construction took place in the 1960-1970s, When neighborhoods were built along the boulevards Yana Raynisa (named after Janis Rajnis) and Khimkinski (after river, now this boulevard is near), Aerodromnaya (Tushino airfield) and Turistskaya (tourist) streets. In the 1970s, villages Petrovo and Zakharkovo was demolished. In the 1980s, neighborhoods were built along the streets Vasili Petushkova and knitting directions.
District serves by Skhodnenskaya (Skhodnya, named after the street named after the river) metro station (line) and (Knit, named after the demolished worker settlement) MCD station (line).