Mytishchi

Mytischi (Russian: Мытищи) is the fourth largest city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 19 km northeast of Moscow, on the Yauza River. It has a common border with Moscow. The city is the administrative center for Mytishchnskiy district and also a region's big center of industry (machine building, arms industry in particular) and education. Mytishchi is famous for the aqueduct, which was built in XVIII century by instructions of Catrine II. It is first water-supply in Russia constructed to provide Kremlin with pure water.

Population: 159,900 (2002 Census); 125,000 (1973); 60,000 (1939).

[edit] History

The first settlement of ancient people (hunters and fishers) is dated as VI-III milleniums B.C. It was The Late Stone Age. In the VIII-IX centuries first tribes of the Slavs (Vyatichs and Krivichs) bedan settle here. In the area of the Mytishchinskiy district about dozen of such settlements (XI-XIII centuries) are known.

The settlement of Mytishchi ( Мытищи) has been known since 1460, since XIX century as Larger Mytishchi (Большие Мытищи, Bolshie Mytishchi). History of the village is strictly linked to the Yauzskiy portage. Mytishchi took an impourtant place on the way of trade ships. Through this site commercial ships had been trailed on the weels, rollers, or skids from the river Yauza to the river Klyazma. And merchants had to pay a duty for this. The settlement got it's name thanks to the duty, which had been known as Myt.

In the middle of the XIX century population of the village made up 389 persons.

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