En Name: | Yakhroma |
Ru Name: | Яхрома |
Coordinates: | 56.2833°N 65°W |
Map Label Position: | top |
Image Coa: | Coat of Arms of Yakhroma (Moscow oblast) (1988).png |
Federal Subject: | Moscow Oblast |
Adm District Jur: | Dmitrovsky District |
Adm Selsoviet Jur: | Yakhroma |
Adm Selsoviet Type: | Town |
Adm Ctr Of: | Town of Yakhroma |
Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
Mun District Jur: | Dmitrovsky Municipal District |
Urban Settlement Jur: | Yakhroma Urban Settlement |
Mun Admctr Of: | Yakhroma Urban Settlement |
Pop 2010Census: | 13214 |
Established Date: | 1841 |
Current Cat Date: | 1940 |
Postal Codes: | 141840 |
Website: | http://www.yaxroma.ru/ |
Yakhroma (Russian: Я́хрома) is a town in Dmitrovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Yakhroma River, 55km (34miles) north of Moscow. Population:
It was founded in 1841 as a settlement servicing a local textile factory on the Yakroma River. In 1901, a railway station, which later adopted the same name, was built near the settlement on the Moscow (Savyolovsky)–Kimry (Savyolovo) line. The settlement was granted town status in 1940.On 27.11.1941 Germany, briefly took the Moscow-Volga Bridgehead at, what they called, Jachroma, with its railway station, a day after reaching the outskirts of Kashira (Kaschira).
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with thirty-seven rural localities, incorporated within Dmitrovsky District as the Town of Yakhroma.[1] As a municipal division, the Town of Yakhroma is incorporated within Dmitrovsky Municipal District as Yakhroma Urban Settlement.[2]