Chekhov (Russian: Че́хов) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia. Before 1954, it was named Lopasnya (Лопа́сня), after the Lopasnya River. Population: 72,917 (2002 Census), 56,000 (1985). Fifteen kilometers away from Chekhov, in the village of Melikhovo, there is a museum of Anton Chekhov. On the outskirts of Chekhov lies the Davidov Hermitage, reputedly the richest monastery in Russia. It contains many churches from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Nearby Chekhov is the Russian General Staff wartime command post, buried deep underground,[1] which is almost certainly linked directly to the Kremlin by a underground rail link - the 'Moscow Metro 2' line operated by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).[2]
Sister cities
Chekhov has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI):
External links
- ^ Globalsecurity.org, Chekhov, accessed October 2007
- ^ Google Earth community Both of these sources draw on the US Department of Defense's Soviet Military Power.
