Naro-Fominsk

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Naro-Fominsk

a city under oblast jurisdiction; administrative center of Naro-Fominsk Raion, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR. Located on the Nara River (a tributary of the Oka). It has a railroad station (Nara) on the Moscow-Sukhinichi line, 70 km southwest of Moscow. Population, 52,000 (1973; in 1939, 32,000).

Naro-Fominsk was founded in 1840 as a settlement near a spinning mill. During the Great Patriotic War, the city served as the front line in the defense of Moscow. After the war the spinning and weaving mill was remodeled and refurbished into a silk combine.

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