Vysokovsk

Vysokovsk () is a town in Klinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Moscow. Population:

Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Vysokovsk
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Высоковск
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: Top-down, left-to-right: apartment buildings, town hall, Vysokovsk cotton mill
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: right
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of Arms of Vysokovsk (Moscow oblast) (1997).png
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Vysokovsk (Moscow oblast).png
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Moscow Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Klinsky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur: Vysokovsk
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type: Town
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of: Town of Vysokovsk

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History
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Administrative and municipal status
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Vysokovsk () is a town in Klinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Moscow. Population:

==History== It was founded in 1879 due to the construction of a textile factory by the Vysokovskaya Manufactory Company. Two minor settlements servicing the factory—Vysokoye () and Novy Bazar ()—grew into one, named Vysokovsky (), in 1928. It was granted town status in 1940 and renamed Vysokovsk.