Country Russia Time zone MSK (UTC+03:00) | Federal subject Moscow | |
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Bibirevo District (Russian: райо́н Би́бирево) is an administrative district (raion) of North-Eastern Administrative Okrug near Moscow Ring Road, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 6.45 square kilometers (2.49 sq mi).
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Map of Bibirevo District, Moscow, Russia
History
The area is named after the village Bibirevo, known since the end of the XVI century. Until 1774 the village and the lands around it belonged to the Ascension Convent, based Dmitry Donskoy and his wife Grand Duchess Eudoxia. The monastery was located on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin and in the summer nuns traveled to Bibirevo. In 1774 the village came under the jurisdiction of the State College of economy, and peasants became state owned.
Cathedral of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Bibirevo was consecrated in 1894 in gratitude to God for the deliverance of the villagers from cholera. The temple was set flush with the wooden church of the Annunciation of the Virgin, known from the y16th centur. In 1852 in the village there were 164 farmers, 36 yards, 1 church. In 1960 was included in the Dzerzhinsky district of Moscow. Since the late 1960s it's territory was subject to mass housing construction. In 1967 Bibirevo became part of the Kirovsky Raion. In 1991, after the administrative reform of some of it became separate administrative unit bearing the same name, and some - to "Altufievskoe".