Yakhroma
Sign in to saveYakhroma () is a town in Dmitrovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Yakhroma River, north of Moscow. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Yakhroma
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Яхрома
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Yakhroma-station.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Yakhroma railway station
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- top
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Yakhroma (Moscow oblast) (1988).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Yahroma (Moscow oblast).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Moscow Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Dmitrovsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Yakhroma
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Town of Yakhroma
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Dmitrovsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Yakhroma Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Yakhroma Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 13214
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1841
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Yakhroma () is a town in Dmitrovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Yakhroma River, north of Moscow. Population:
==History== It was founded in 1841 as a settlement servicing a local textile factory on the Yakroma River. In 1901, a railway station, which later adopted the same name, was built near the settlement on the Moscow (Savyolovsky)–Kimry (Savyolovo) line. The settlement was granted town status in 1940. On 27 November 1941, the German Army briefly took the Moscow-Volga Bridgehead at Yakhroma's railway station a day after reaching the outskirts of Kashira.
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