Lyubertsy
Ljuberzy (Russian Люберцы ) is a Russian city with 172 525 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Moscow Oblast. It is located around 20 km south-east of Moscow, just before its city limits. Other neighboring towns are Kotelniki and Dzerzhinsky, also limits the settlements Tomilino and Kraskovo to Ljuberzy to.
History
The first mention of the place it was in documents of 1621; there Ljuberzy was run as a village called Liberizy, which in turn could be derived from the first name Liber. Even into the 19th century, the village was agricultural. Over time, the local country changed its owner and was in the first half of the 18th century the military and statesman Alexander Menshikov and later times, the Tsar Peter III.
A significant development Ljuberzy learned from the late 19th century, when on the one hand, the population of Moscow grew strong and at the same time close to Moscow located Ljuberzy laying the strategically important railway line Moscow - Ryazan -Kazan received a good transport connections. Since then it has developed into a satellite city of Moscow, originated in addition to numerous Sommerdatschen large residential district and several industrial companies.
The city status was given Ljuberzy in 1925. In the 1930s, several neighboring villages were also incorporated to Ljuberzy. Towards the end of the 1980s the city was the center of Ljubery, an aggressively anti - Western movement.
Economy
The city is now less than Datschenvorort, but rather as a large industrial city. Among the two dozen industrial buildings in Ljuberzy are mainly enterprises of mechanical engineering to name (including a helicopter work of the design office Kamov and several factories which specializing in the production of agricultural plants), further enterprises of wood processing and the light and food industries. Likewise, agriculture plays a significant role in Ljuberzy, including the agricultural wholesale operation Belaya Dacha. A considerable number of urban residents working in nearby Moscow.
Traffic
The city has direct connections to highway M 5 and the Moscow Ring Road MKAD, about which there is also connection to a number of other highways. In addition Ljuberzy regarded as a railway junction, since the area of the city, the busy railway line ( which is sometimes used as a portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway ) to Arzamas branches off from the route to Kazan. There are four passenger stations in the urban area. The main railway station that serves both routes is, Ljuberzy -1. From here there are regular connections with local trains (also called Elektritschki ) to Moscow.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Alexander Bubnov ( b. 1955 ), football player and coach
- Mikhail Bychkov (1926-1997), ice hockey player
- Vladimir Cholstinin (born 1958 ), musician, founder of the band Arija
- Boris Yakemenko (* 1966), politician, one of the leaders of the youth organization Nashi
- Vasily Yakemenko (* 1971), politician, founder of the youth organizations Iduschtschije vmeste and Nashi
- Anatoli Pristawkin (1931-2008), writer and human rights activist
In addition Ljuberzy is the home of famous Russian band Ljube.