Zelenograd

Zelenograd is a metropolis and administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia. Zelenograd become founded in 1958 as a brand new metropolis in the Soviet Union, advanced as a center of electronics, microelectronics and the computer enterprise known as "Soviet/ Russian Silicon Valley", and remains an essential middle of electronics in present day Russia. The metropolis color is green and its emblematic animal is the squirrel.

Zelenograd was based in 1958 as an unnamed planned metropolis near the village and railway station of Kryukovo on a previously empty, forested region, and its structure and civic layout yields to at least one wellknown architectural plan, which has appreciable impact from garden town movement, development of Finish Tapiola district and new towns in the United Kingdom. The metropolis was deliberate as a middle of the fabric industry to begin with, however in 1962, Alexander Shokin proposed to alternate the road of future city business to electronics.

Some researchers of Soviet electronics history stated that a comparable concept turned into proposed to the Soviet government through fugitive Silicon Valley engineers - Alfred Sarant and Joel Barr. On January 15, 1963 the metropolis received official town repute and call Zelenograd, and on November 25, 1968 Zelenograd obtained the repute of district of Moscow simultaneously. In 1988, Zelenograd incorporated the previous village of Kryukovo, one of the vital web sites during the Battle of Moscow.