Moscow Region is located in the central part of the East European Plain in the basin of the Volga, Oka, Klyazma, Moscow.
Territory – 47 ths. km.
Population – 7 million people.
The average population density – 143,5 people. per square. km.
Moscow region – one of the most developed agricultural and industrial regions of Central Russia with the millions of people, high scientific potential, the world-famous monuments of history, culture and art. By XX century Moscow Province occupied 29,2 thousand kv.verst and consisted of 13 counties (Bogorodsky, Bronnitsky, Vereysky, Volokolamsk, Dmitrov, Zvenigorod, Klin, Kolomna, Mozhaysk, Moscow, Podolsk, Ruza, Serpukhov). In the 1897 census lived here 2.4 million, including 1.1 million – in the cities. In Moscow province were more than 2,5 thousands of factories, employing 325.6 thousand people.
Moscow region
In the XXI century Moscow region became one of the leading regions for the production of consumer goods, a region rich in natural resources (peat, phosphorite, white and red clay, building and silicate sand, cement raw materials).
In addition, here the development of heavy and light industry, chemical and petrochemical industry, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, machine building and metalworking, and textiles, food, timber, woodworking and pulp and paper industry.
Today, the population of Moscow region has more than 6.6 million people living on 46 thousand square kilometers. A third of the Moscow region occupied by forests, in which there are all sorts of animals and birds. Moscow – the edge of protected rivers and lakes, as well as man-made reservoirs.
Today, as in the past, near Moscow region continues to be the center of attraction for the country’s intellectual elite.
The climate of Moscow region is temperate continental with a frosty, snowy winters and humid, relatively warm summers.
Area is characterized by a highly developed transport infrastructure: an extended network of railways and roads, four airports, providing air communication with all countries of the world, waterways running through the Moscow-Volga Canal.
Holidays in Moscow – an excellent opportunity to regain strength, passing courses spa treatment outdoors, without going too far from home. Tourist centers near Moscow are always ready to take hunting or fishing enthusiasts.
On the territory of Moscow region there are many world-famous architectural and historical monuments – the city of Sergiev Posad, Zvenigorod, Volokolamsk, Kolomna, Dmitrov, Klin, Kolomna, Mozhaisk, Ruza, Serpukhov, as well as museums, manor: Abramcevo, Muranovo, Ostafievo, Arkhangelsk, “New Jerusalem”, more than 70 museums, art galleries and exhibition halls.