Sokolniki District (Moscow)
Russia /
Moscow /
Moscow
World
/ Russia
/ Moscow
/ Moscow
, 8 km from center (Москва)
World / Russia / Moscow City / North-Eastern
district, invisible, third-level administrative division
Administrative district (raion) of Eastern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. Population: 57,444 (2010 Census); 54,975 (2002 Census).
Sokolniki derives its name from the word "сокол" (sokol, meaning "falcon") in view of the Tsar's falcon hunting grounds which were located there, primarily on the territory of the present-day Sokolniki Park. The district also provides the name for one of its metro stations: Sokolniki Metro Station.
Sokolniki derives its name from the word "сокол" (sokol, meaning "falcon") in view of the Tsar's falcon hunting grounds which were located there, primarily on the territory of the present-day Sokolniki Park. The district also provides the name for one of its metro stations: Sokolniki Metro Station.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokolniki_District
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°48'11"N 37°40'40"E
- Golyanovo District 7.3 km
- Metrogorodok District 8.4 km
- Vostochny Administrative Okrug 8.6 km
- Severo-Vostochny Administrative Okrug 20 km
- Vostochny District 24 km
- Severny Administrative Okrug 27 km
- Zelenograd 42 km
- Proletarsky dictrict 169 km
- Zavolzhsky City District 174 km
- Torzhoksky District 264 km
- Former Shiryaevo Pole stadium 0.3 km
- Sokolniki Exhibition Center 0.4 km
- Fenced-out area 0.5 km
- Sokolniki Park 0.6 km
- Health Pathway in Sokolniki park 0.7 km
- Vtoroy Putyayevsky Pond 1.1 km
- Trety Putyayevsky Pond 1.2 km
- Verkhny (Pervy) Putyayevsky Pond 1.3 km
- Malenkovskaya railway halt 1.6 km
- Severo-Vostochny Administrative Okrug 8.1 km