Tsaritsyno District


Tsaritsyno is a district within the Southern Administrative Okrug of Moscow. Area: 426,2 ha. Its current name is traced back to 1775. Previously, Tsaritsyno was known under several other names: the Chernogryaznaya Waste, Chernaya Gryaz, Bogorodskoye settlement and Lenino. Tsaritsyno hosts such landmarks as Tsaritsyno Palace and Arshinovskiy Forest Park.
In 1960, Lenino was incorporated into the Proletarsky District of Moscow and, in 1968, to Krasnogvardeysky District.