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Pushchino
Sign in to savePushchino () is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, an important scientific center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Situated south of Moscow, and 13 km south-east of Serpukhov, on the right side of the Oka River opposite the Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve. It is informally called Pushchino-on-Oka. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Pushchino
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Пущино
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Puschino.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Pushchino from the air
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat_of_Arms_of_Pushchino_(Moscow_oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag_of_Puschino_(Moscow_oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Moscow Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur
- Pushchino Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Pushchino Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur
- Pushchino Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Pushchino Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 20332
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 16th century
- Russian inhabited locality.established_title
- Known since
- Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date
- 1966
- Russian inhabited locality.website
- http://www.pushchino.ru/
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Development of Pushchino
- Geography
- Climate
- Forest, natural reserves and protected areas
- Administrative and municipal status
- Science
- Culture
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Sources
- External links
Pushchino () is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, an important scientific center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Situated south of Moscow, and 13 km south-east of Serpukhov, on the right side of the Oka River opposite the Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve. It is informally called Pushchino-on-Oka. Population:
Pushchino Research Center of Russian Academy of Sciences has unique status and significance. It hosts a major component of Russian Federation endeavor in the fields of physical, chemical, and bio-molecular biology. It employs more than 3000 people, of whom 800 hold doctorates in science or medicine. Pushchino scientists have made seminal contributions to molecular and cell biology, bio-organic chemistry, plant and soil biology, as well as to astronomy and astrophysics - including the discovery of the solar supercorona and radial magnetic fields within it, and the discovery of radio recombination lines of highly excited atoms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pushchino” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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