Staraya Kupavna

Staraya Kupawna (Russian Старая Купавна ) is a town with 21 811 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in Rajon Noginsk of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located 23 km from the eastern city limits of Moscow away. The nearest towns are Monino and Lossino - Petrovsky.

History

The settlement was first mentioned in writing in Kupawna years 1353rd In the 18th century there arose of a brick and a 1812 resolution watchmaker. Since the 1930s, developed from the former village an urban-type settlement, were settled in the predominantly workers and employees of the nearby, founded at that time industrial enterprises.

In 2004, the settlement of Staraya Kupawna city rights.

Economy and infrastructure

In today's Staraya Kupawna there are around a dozen smaller industrial enterprises, including a textile factory and a chemical plant.

Near the city runs the M7 highway and the railway line from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod with a breakpoint.

Textile factory in Staraya Kupawna

Personalities

• Vasily Arkhipov (1926-1999), naval officer, died in Staraya Kupawna