Tomilino
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Tomilino is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement
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) in Lyuberetsky District of Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast
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, Russia
Russia
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. Population: In terms of population, Tomilino is the largest urban-type settlement in Lyuberetsky District.

Tomilino consists of a multi-story buildings sector and a private houses sector. Railway station in 25 km southeast from Moscow
Moscow
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.

In the 19th century, Tomilino was an estate of Obolensky knyaz
Knyaz
Kniaz, knyaz or knez is a Slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a royal nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke....

es. Tomilino was officially founded in 1894 by merchant Tomilin as a suburban settlement where he build his own house. It became very attractive for people because of a very close location to Moscow.

Later Tomilino became known as a scientific research, development, and production center. Some major enterprises were founded by the government. One of them is NPP Zvezda
NPP Zvezda
Research & Development Production Enterprise Zvezda, or R&D PE Zvezda is a Russian manufacturer of life-support systems for high-altitude flight and human spaceflight. Its products include space suits, ejector seats, aircraft escape slides, lifejackets and fire extinguishers...

 plant, famous for the spacesuits for Russian cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
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, and aircraft ejector seats, which highly proved themselves in many extreme situations. There's also Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant
Mil Helicopters is the short name of the Soviet Russian helicopter producer Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant , named after the constructor Mikhail Mil. Mil participates in the Euromil joint venture with Eurocopter....

 ("Mil helicopters", "MVZ"), Tomilino plant of diamond equipment "TOMAL", Tomilino poultry farm and a textile mill. Tomilino semiconductor devices plant "TZPP" became operational at 1958. Tomilino is known as a worker's settlement since 1961.

There are several secondary schools, one sports school, one music school, one boarding school, one sanative school, and a children creative works house.

Tomilino has a local newspaper with a free-of-charge distribution "Tomilinskaya Nov" (in Russian that mean "What's new in Tomilino").

The Local Government Board of Tomilino was elected in September 2005 for five years, and is represented by Igor Nickolayevich Dvornikov and his deputies.

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