Kubinka

Kubinka (Russian Кубинка ) is a town with 22,964 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in Moscow Oblast (Russia). The town is located some 60 kilometers west of Moscow, at about half the distance to Mozhaisk.

History

As village Kubinka has been known since the 15th century in documents. The name could be from the surname of early land owner in the area, Prince Ivan Kubensky descended.

Economically important was the place until the middle of the 19th century, to the time when near the strategically important railway line from Moscow was moved to Smolensk. By the later construction or expansion of other important roads (including today's highway M1 ) and the Great Moscow railway ring which crosses the route Smolensk in Kubinka, the place at a traffic junction was.

1931 set up a road test for cars and military vehicles from the Soviet production near Kubinka. At the same time there was a military base. In 1968, the place the status of a working class neighborhood. It was not until 2004, Kubinka has been a city since then and is part of the Rajon Odintsovo.

Facilities

Worth mentioning is the internationally famous tank museum in the city, which shows one of the world's largest collections of armored vehicles. In addition, the city of the state armament factory MAPO - MiG maintains north an aircraft manufacturing plant with its own airport.