Mitino District (Moscow)

 district, invisible, third-level administrative division

Administrative district (raion) of North-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. It is just outside the Moscow Ring Road, 17 km northwest of the centre of Moscow. The area of the district is 12.67 square kilometers (4.89 sq mi). Population: 183,000 (2017 est.).

In 1961 the city of Moscow's area was nearly doubled by annexing adjacent territory from the Moscow Oblast. The new land was to be used to build large housing massifs for the rapidly growing city. However the geometry of the new layout, which was punctuated by building the MKAD around the city-oblast border meant that future housing district of Strogino was geographically "sandwiched" by the new motorway to the east, the Serebryannyi Bor (Silver Pinewood) natural park to the south and the Moskva River to the north, thus making geographically isolated from the rest of Moscow. The territory for the future district of Mitino, which lies beyond the MKAD, was added to Moscow in the 1980s, although it was not surrounded like Strogino, it too faced the problem do to its distance and to the fact that it too was isolated by the Tushino island formed by the Moscow Canal.