Voykovsky District (Moscow)

 district, invisible, third-level administrative division

Administrative district (raion) of Northern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. It is located 10 km northwest of the Moscow city center. The area of the district is 6.6 square kilometres (2.5 sq mi) As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 64,933.
The territory of the present area "Voikovsky" was inhabited by people in ancient times, as evidenced by archaeological excavations in 1932-34. However, multi-storey construction began only under Soviet rule. The main highway of the district is the Leningrad Highway which has a long history. The former Petrograd Highway in 1924 became Leningrad and is the main thoroughfare on the way to St. Petersburg. In the 15th-17th centuries through the village of Nakhinskoe, later Nikolskoe, there was a large trade road to Tver, along it there were trade people, numerous convoys with goods, drove cattle. No wonder the old adage read: "The City of Tver - the door to Moscow". In the 18th century, when Peter I moved the capital to St. Petersburg, the road connected the two largest cities of Russia.