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Status: District
Area: 6. City of Zelenograd Northern Administrative Okrug North-Eastern Administrative Okrug North-Western Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 4 km²
Population: 56,077 (2002 census)
55,800 (official site estimates)
Population density: 8,700 pers/km²
Coat of arms
Coat of arms
District on the map of Moscow
District on the map of Moscow

Meschansky District is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume Central Administrative District, or Tsentralny Administrative Okrug (Центральный административный округ is an administrative okrug Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The district extends due north from Kitai-gorod to Kamer-Kollezhsky Val. Kitai-gorod (Китай-город is a business district within Moscow, Russia encircled by mostly-reconstructed medieval walls Kamer-Kollezhsky Val (Камер-Коллежский Вал lit Western boundary with Tverskoy District follows the track of Neglinnaya River (Neglinnaya Street, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Samotechnaya Street, Soviet Army Street). History This section is based on P V Sytin's "History of Moscow Streets" Old Muscovy to 19th century Tverskaya Street emerged The Neglinnaya River (Неглинная also known as Neglimna, Neglinna, Neglinka (Неглимна Неглинна Неглинка is a 7 Neglinnaya Street (Russian Неглинная улица is a Street inside the Garden Ring of Moscow, Russia. Tsvetnoy Boulevard (Цветной бульвар called Trubny Boulevard before 1851 is a Boulevard in the Meschansky District, central Moscow Eastern boundary with Krasnoselsky District follows Bolshaya Lubyanka Street and Sretenka Street, then one block east from Prospekt Mira. History Krasnoye Selo (ru Красное Село lit beautiful village) that gave it name to the district and Krasnoselskaya Street existed since Middle Bolshaya Lubyanka Street is a radial Street in Moscow 's Central Administrative Okrug.

The district contains part of Kuznetsky Most Street, Rozhdestvensky monastery and Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, Olympic Stadium and a row of neoclassical, palace-like buildings north from the Garden Ring. Kuznetsky Most (Кузне́цкий Мост is a street in central Moscow, that runs from Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street to Lubyanka Street. Rozhdestvensky monastery, or Nativity Monastery (Рождественский монастырь is a female monastery in Moscow, Russia, located on the Rozhdestvensky (Nativity of Mary Boulevard, ( russian: Рождественский Бульвар Roschdestvensky Boulevard) Olympic Stadium, known locally as the Olimpiysky, is a large Indoor arena located in Moscow Russia. Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and The Garden Ring, also known as the "B" Ring (Садо́вое кольцо́ кольцо́ "Б" is a Circular Avenue around It houses headquarters of Federal Security Service in Lubyanka Square, Central Bank of the Russian Federation, FAPSI and other government agencies. The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( FSB) ( Russian: ФСБ Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Federalnaya Lubyanka Square (Лубянская площадь in Moscow is not far from Red Square. The Bank of Russia (Банк России or the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Центральный банк Российской Федерации is the FAPSI (ФАПСИ or Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information (FAGCI (Федеральное Агентство Правительственной Связи

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Etymology

Meshchane (plural, мещане) in Imperial Russia denoted a social estate of poor town residents who did not qualify as merchants or civil servants; in modern Russian, it is a pejorative name for a narrow-minded philistine. The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya The Estates of the realm were the broad divisions of society usually distinguishing Nobility, Clergy, and Commoners recognized in the Middle Ages Words and phrases are pejorative if they imply disapproval or contempt The Philistines ( Hebrew פלשתים plishtim) (see "other uses" below were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan, Meschansky District acquired its name earlier, in the second half of 17th century, through the Ukrainians and Belarusians abducted from their hometowns in the course of Russo-Polish War (1654–1667). Ukrainians (Українці Ukrayintsi,) are an East Slavic Ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly— Citizens Belarusians or Belorussians (Беларусы Biełarusy previously also spelled Belarussians, Byelorussians and Belorusians, also The Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667, also called the War for Ukraine, was the last major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth These people settled north from present-day Garden Ring, reaching 692 households by 1682 (Sytin, p. The Garden Ring, also known as the "B" Ring (Садо́вое кольцо́ кольцо́ "Б" is a Circular Avenue around 296). In their languages, meshchane meant simply "town people", "the locals", without negative connotation; the name of Meshchanskaya sloboda persists to date. Sloboda was a kind of settlement in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Symbols on the coat of arms denote:

Gallery

North from Garden Ring: four historical buildings in a row are divided between Meshchansky and Maryina Roshcha District

Catherine's Institute, present-day House of Culture of Russian Army

Mariinsky Hospital, birthplace of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and 1918 monument to Dostoyevsky

Alexander's Institute, also a public hospital

Russian Army Theater

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