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Landmark Attractions In Istrinsky District

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Istrinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,268.97 square kilometers . Its administrative center is the town of Istra. Population: 119,641 ; 115,753 ; 90,572 . The population of Istra accounts for 29.3% of the district's total population.
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  • 4. High Voltage Research Center Istra
    The Istra High Voltage Research Center, also dubbed The High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility, was a Soviet operated testing facility built in the 1970s outside the town of Istra, 40 kilometers west of Moscow and operated by the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
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  • 7. Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery Zvenigorod
    The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. It is the preeminent landmark of Zvenigorod, a town 48 km west of Moscow. In 1398, Prince Yuri of Zvenigorod asked Savva, or Sabbas, one of the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, to come to his capital city and set up a monastic abode on the Storozhi Holm . St. Savva of Storozhi was interred in the white stone cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity in 1407. This diminutive, roughly hewn church still stands, although its present-day exquisite look is the result of a 1970s restoration campaign. The frescoes in the altar date back to the 1420s, but the rest of the interior was painted in 1656. A magnificent iconostasis in five tiers and the Stroganov School royal doors ...
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