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Zhukovsky
Zhukovsky (English); Жуковский (Russian)
— Inhabited locality —
	; Location of Moscow Oblast on the map of Russia
	; Location of Zhukovsky on the map of Moscow Oblast
	Coordinates: 55°35′50″N 38°7′13″E / 55.59722°N 38.12028°ECoordinates: 55°35′50″N 38°7′13″E / 55.59722°N 38.12028°E
; Coat of arms	; Flag
Holiday	Third Sunday of August[citation needed]
	Administrative status
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Moscow Oblast
In administrative jurisdiction of	Moscow Oblast[citation needed]
Administrative center of	—[citation needed]
	Municipal status
Municipal Status	Urban district
Head[citation needed]	Alexander Bobovnikov[citation needed]
Representative body	Council of Deputies[citation needed]
	Statistics
Area	31.86 km2 (12.3 sq mi)[citation needed]
Population (2002 Census)	101,328 inhabitants
- Rank	161st
- Density	3,180 /km2 (8,200/sq mi)
Time zone	MSK/MSD (UTC+3/+4)
Founded	1935[citation needed]
Postal code(s)	140180[citation needed]
Dialing code(s)	+7 49648, 495[citation needed]
Official website	http://www.zhukovskiy.ru/

Zhukovsky (Russian: Жуко́вский) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Moskva River, 40 km southeast of Moscow.

The urban-type settlement of Stakhanovo was founded in 1935 from the dacha settlement Otdykh (literally, "Relaxation"). It was named after Alexey Stakhanov - a famous miner in the Soviet Union. Later in 1947 received the town status and renamed to Zhukovsky after the pioneer of aero- and hydrodynamics Nikolai Zhukovsky.

Zhukovsky is a home to the M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute known as LII and N. Ye. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute known as (ЦАГИ) TsAGI — they are two major facilities involved in testing and designing aircraft. These facilities were employers for a great portion of the city's population before perestroika. Also, there is situated the Aeromechanics faculty of MIPT.

There are a number smaller, but also important enterprises, such as:

V. V. Tikhomirov Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Design (NIIP),
Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Equipment (Научно-исследовательский институт авиационного оборудования, НИИАО, NIIAO),
Agate Moscow Scientific Research Institute (Московский научно-исследовательский институт «Агат», Агат, Agate),
Vladimir Myasishchev Experimental machine-building plant Myasishchev (Экспериментальный машиностроительный завод имени В.М.Мясищева, ЭМЗ, EMZ).

There are also some aviation design bureaus - Sukhoy, Ilyushin, Tupolev, etc located in the area

Machine-building, woodworking plants, spare parts factory, paper-mill Food industry - Inko, Nestlé, local bread-baking plant.

Zhukovsky is the center of track and field athletics in the Moscow region. Most notable Zhukovsky-born athletes - Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Ekaterina Podkopayeva, Andrew Epishin, Dmitriy Bogdanov and others. In 2005 a new world class athletics stadium "Meteor" was opened.

In 2008 President Putin signed a presidential decree establishing the National Aircraft Construction Center^[3]