Shchukino District

Shchukino District is an administrative district of North-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 administrative districts of the federal city of Moscow, Russia.

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Type: Suburb with 102,000 residents
Description: district of Moscow
Also known as: “Shchukino” and “муниципальный округ Щукино”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shchukinskaya and Sokol.

Shchukinskaya

Metro station

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Shchukinskaya is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the village of Schukino before it was consumed by Moscow and became a municipality in the 1940s, it was opened on 30 December 1975.

Sokol

Metro station

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Sokol is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. The station opened on 11 September 1938. Designed by K. Yakovlev, V. Polikarpova, and V. Andreev, it features a single row of pillars which flare upward into the arched ceiling, separated by circular coffers.

Oktyabrskoye Pole

Metro station

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Oktyabrskoye Pole is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. The station was opened on 30 December 1972 as part of the Krasnopresnenskiy radius, and for exactly three years it was the original terminus of the Krasnopresnenskaya Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khoroshyovo-Mnyovniki District and Voykovsky District.

Khoroshyovo-Mnyovniki District

Suburb

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Khoroshyovo-Mnyovniki – sometimes spelled Khoroshyovo-Mnevniki or Khoroshevo-Mnevniki due to common replacement of letter "yo" with "ye" in Russian – is a neighborhood of North-Western Borough of the federal city of Moscow, Russia.

Voykovsky District

Suburb

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Voykovsky District is an administrative district, one of the sixteen in Northern Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. It is located 10 km northwest of the Moscow city center.