Chekhov (Че́хов) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia. Moscow oblast (Моско́вская о́бласть) is an administrative subdivision of Russia officially established on January 14, 1929. ...
Before 1954, it was named Lopasnya (Лопа́сня). 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Population: 72,917 (2002), 56,000 (1985). 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 15 km from Chekhov, in the village Melikhovo, there is a museum of Anton Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. ...
On the outskirts of Chekhov lies the Davidov Hermitage, reputedly the richest monastery in Russia. It contains many churches from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Moscowoblast (Моско́вская о́бласть) is an administrative subdivision of Russia officially established on January 14, 1929.
Moscowoblast is highly industrialized with its main industrial branches being metallurgy, oil refining, and mechanical engineering, food, energy and chemical industries.
Although the city of Moscow is territorially within the Moscowoblast, it has a special administrative status.
The Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology continued to be denied reregistration by the Moscow authorities and faced threats of dissolution.
In February 2004, the Procuracy of Moscow's Northern Circuit banned the local organization of Jehovah's Witnesses on the grounds that it was a "threat to society," a basis for banning under the 1997 law.
In MoscowOblast, which is a separate jurisdiction from the city of Moscow, the Witnesses reported the cancellation of rentals by a hotel conference center, a cinema and a cultural center, each of which previously had been used by congregations of Witnesses.
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