Khimki (Moscow)

Khimki population dynamics:

It was first mentioned in the scribal book of 1584 as the Timofeevskaya wasteland, belonging to the village of Businov , which belonged to the Novodevichy Convent . As a settlement is mentioned only in the second half of the XVII century. Then the village of Timofeevskaya was the property of Artemy Kozlov, the clerk of Konyushenny, Chelobitny, Yamsky and other orders. In 1678, there was a court yard of the estatemen in the village, a clerk and two courtyards lived in it; there were 5 peasant households, where 18 people lived. After the death of Kozlov, the village again became the property of the Novodevichy Convent. At the beginning of the XVIII century there was a monastery courtyard, 9 peasant households and 39 male souls ^[2] .

In the middle of the 18th century, after the secularization of the monastic lands, the village of Timofeevskaya passed into the possession of the College of Economy. Then in the documents for the first time the second name of the village is mentioned - Khimki . At the end of the 18th century, the village passed into the possession of Count Nikolai Alexandrovich Zubov , the future murderer of Paul I. At that time in the village there were 20 yards and 119 inhabitants. According to the "Economic Gazette", in 1800, at the village of Timofeevskaya, there was a government-made stone bridge over the Khimka river. During the Patriotic War of 1812, the village was occupied by French troops. According to the report of Adjutant General F. F. Wincingerode , on September 15 the Cossack Colonel Ilovaisky, 12th, attacked the French avant-garde, " consisting of infantry and cavalry and located in the village of Khimki ." The French were defeated, 270 soldiers and one officer were captured, the number of those killed was unknown ^[2] .

In 1834, the St. Petersburg highway was opened, which passed through Khimki. A post station was opened in the village. In the vicinity of the village summer residents began to settle. In the area of ​​the current Coastal passage there was a small stone chapel. In 1900, the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture rented a cottage nearby for teaching students in the landscape class. In 1861, the village was included in the All Saints volost of the Moscow province and county . After laying near the Nikolaev railway, the value of the Petersburg highway fell, and income from village taverns and inns decreased. At the same time, locksmith workshops began to open in Khimki. Until the 1930s, they were engaged in the manufacture of furnace fittings. Near the Khimki railway station a village was formed, which later grew and became the city of the same name in Khimki . Despite the common name, the village of Khimki has never been part of this city ^[1] .

After the October Revolution, the village of Khimki became part of the Ulyanovsk volost of the Moscow district and became the administrative center of the Khimki village council, which also included the village of Alyoshkino ^[7] . Khimki later received the status of a village, which by 1953 was already part of the Khimki district ^[8] . In Soviet times, the New Life collective farm was opened in the village of Khimki, which in 1950 became part of the Khovrinsky collective farm “The Way to Communism”. In Khimki, the knitting workshop of the Khimki district industrial complex also worked. In 1937, the Canal named after Moscow passed near Khimki, and a village of port workers appeared south of the village. In 1960, Khimki was within the boundaries of Moscow, and soon mass housing construction began in this area ^[2] .