Aeroport District ( Russian : райо́н Аэропо́рт , rayon Aeroport , "Airport District") is an administrative district ( raion ) of the Northern Administrative Okrug and one of the 125 raions of Moscow , Russia . The area of the district is 4.58 square kilometers (1.77 sq mi).
6-487: The district is named for the Khodynka Aerodrome , which closed in 2003. The Aeroport Metro Station opened in the district in 1938. The aviation companies Irkut , Ilyushin , and Yakovlev have their head offices in the district. Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University is located in the district. The New Humanitarian School , a private school, is in the district. Petrovsky Palace
12-450: Is located here. Central Dynamo Stadium was located in the district, until its destruction and replacement with VTB Arena . 55°47′29″N 37°33′34″E / 55.79139°N 37.55944°E / 55.79139; 37.55944 Khodynka Aerodrome Khodynka (Russian: Ходынский , Khodynskiy ), officially Frunze Central Aerodrome , formerly known as Central ( Tsentralny , Центральный аэродром имени М. В. Фрунзе ),
18-485: The facility. There resulted a runway and six small hangars for aeroplanes. The official opening took place on 3 October 1910 in the presence of military authorities and of many Russian aviators. M. F. De Campo Scipio [ pl ] made the first takeoff. In 1920, the Scientific-Test Airfield NOA GU RKKVF, which was to become today's 929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P. Chkalov ,
24-455: The scientific-testing institute was relocated to Chkalovsky near Shchelkovo . In 1938 the airport gave its name to the newly opened Moscow Metro station Aeroport to the north of the runway. Khodynka remained the only airport in Moscow until the opening of Bykovo in 1933. ( Tushino opened in 1935, Vnukovo in 1941). Passenger flights stopped in the late 1940s, from 1950s to 2003 aerodrome
30-595: Was an airport in Moscow , Russia, located northwest of the centre of the city. The aerodrome was founded on 17 June 1910, when the Moscow Aeronautical Society [ ru ] announced that the staff of the Moscow Military District had approved the allocation of land in the territory of Khodynka field as an airfield. Donations from aviation enthusiasts met much of the cost of the construction of
36-601: Was established at the airfield. On 3 May 1922, the first ever Russian international flight on the route Moscow - Königsberg - Berlin took place. On 15 July 1923, the first regular domestic passenger flights between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod started - the 420 km route took 2.5 hours in a 4-seater AK-1 monoplane . From 1923 to 1926 the facility bore the name "Central L. D. Trotsky Aerodrome" ( Центральный аэродром имени Л. Д. Троцкого ). Subsequently, it officially became "Central M. V. Frunze Aerodrome" ( Центральный аэродром имени М. В. Фрунзе ). From 1932 to 1935,
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