Lotoshino is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

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) and the administrative center of Lotoshinsky District

Lotoshinsky District

Lotoshinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 38 in Moscow Oblast, Russia....

 of Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

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, Russia

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. It is the least populous district center in Moscow Oblast. Population:

Lotoshino was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1478. Under the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, it was a village within Volokolamsky Uyezd of Moscow Governorate

Moscow Governorate

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, but did not even have a status of a volost

Volost

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center. It became the administrative center of the district in 1929, when Moscow Oblast was founded. In 1951, it was granted urban-type settlement status.

Postal codes: 143800, 143801.