A Guinnes record was achieved in Zelenograd!

For authors and owners of Zelenograd sites www.zelao.ru has announced applications submission to participate in the Web Olympics of 2013.

From 1 October to 30 November the Prefecture of Zelenograd District is holding the Hackathon developers contest "Encode for Zelenograd."

The Prefecture approved the first draft version of the Krukovo district plan limited by Kutuzovsky highway, passage №657 (St. George Avenue), passage № 687 and the projected SPAs (Special Protected Areas) "Wildlife Sanctuary" The Goretovka River” Valley”. This is the territory of the Center for Informatics and Electronics. The appropriate order of the Prefecture notes that in the future there will appear residential and office buildings, manufacturing facilities, cultural facilities, and others.

Mr. Sergey Sobyanin, Acting Moscow Mayor, has rewarded the best employees and institutions of Moscow housing and communal services for the 2013 results in city territory improvement. The ceremony took place in Rossiya Concert Hall, Luzhniki.

Zelenograd was named “The best administrative okrug of Moscow in terms of city programs implementation”. Mr. A.Smirnov is the okrug’s prefect.

Anna Nikolayeva, Silino District resident, has become 100 on September 27th. She was visited by Ms. N.Sviridova, Zelenograd Deputy Prefect, Mr. A.Zhurba, Head of District Administration, and social work officials.

One of Zelenograd cafés achieved a Guinnes record on the Day of Moscow at the Central Square.

The 511 kg “Napoleon” cake was baked. The size of the cake was 5.64 m long and 1.29 m wide.

It was being offered to Zelenograd residents for 3 hours!

The festive program devoted to the Day of Moscow traditionally started in Zelenograd on September, 1 by the Pioneer Constructors Memorial. Anatoly Smirnov, ZelAO Prefect, pioneer constructors, veterans, deputy prefects, district administration heads and other officials took part in the festive meeting and flower-laying ceremony.

The results of the first half-year of 2012 have been summed up in Zelenograd. The tax transfers to Moscow city budget is 125% as compared to the previous year. Unemployment in Zelenograd is 1,4% against 2% in the similar perioud of the previous year.

On the 14th of June His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill consecrated the foundation stone of the church in the name of Saint Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky.

Mark, archbishop of Egoryevsk, Tikhon, bishop of Podolsk, Father Vladimir, rural dean of Zelenograd churches, deputy of the state Duma of the Russian Federation V. Resin, Zelenograd prefect A. Smirnov, head of Kryukovo administrative board A. Zhurba and believers of Zelenograd took part in the ceremony.

On the eve of the 67^th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War celebration the laying of wreath and flower ceremony was organized in Zelenograd.

The solemn ceremonies took place in the Park named after the 40^th anniversary of the Victory near the bust monument to K. Rokossovsky, the monument at the bed of honour at Kryukovo station and the monument to the Moscow defenders at the 40^th km of Leningradskoe highway.

The return of the swans to Bykovo Boloto after winter has become a small May holiday.

At the Tsentralnaya square of Zelenograd the 5^th jubilee ‘Autolady 2012’ drivers’s skills competition took place. It is nearly a professional event for female drivers.

The participants compete in 4 classes, ‘Newcomer drivers’ (no experience), ‘Trainees’ (up to 3 years of experience), ‘Autopilots’ (3–10 years) and ‘Experienced drivers’ (over 10 years).

This years’s ‘Moscow Craftsmen’ profession skill competition was the 14th one. Among 174 winners of 74 professions there were 3 Zelenograd citizens. Our Zelenograd ‘craftsmen’ were the best in categories ‘Veterinarian’ (O.Baranov, 3rd prize), ‘Social Worker’ T.Semyonova, 3rd prize) and ‘Milling Machine Utility Operator’ (P.Plakhotnikov, the same ‘bronze’).All the winners received their prizes, gifts of money and applause in the large conference hall of Moscow Government building at Novy Arbat. Representatives of the most lingering working dynasties and the youngest participant of the competition final stages were also given souvenirs.

This year Zelenograd celebrated A Town Day with much eclat. Lots of events coincided with the holiday were held in every Zelenograd district on September 3rd and 4th.

Red Army man Ivan Khvorostukhin’s remains were buried at Zelenograd municipal cemetery. He missed in action in November 1941, and in 69 years his remains were found in Odintsovskiy district.

On March 29, 2011, the mayor of Moscow S. Sobyanin visited Zelenograd. The visit was meant to the in-depth familiarity with the borough and its problems as well as programme preparation for its further development on a range of vital issues, such as housing construction, community infrastructure and facilities, creating new vacancies, transportation infrastructure development and development of Special Economic Zone Zelenograd.

Zelenograd prefecture continued using new ways to make the communication between the authorities and the citizens more convenient. On the 10th of December the regular SMS conference of Zelenograd city borough of Moscow prefect A.Smirnov was held. Among more than 90 questions the most popular issues were housing maintenance and utilities as well as municipal improvement.

On the 4th and 5th of September Zelenograd people celebrated the Town Day. Traditionally, it started in Yunost square, next to the commemorative token for the first builders of Zelenograd.

On the 7th of September the youngest and the greenest administrative district of Moscow celebrated the City Day. Zelenograd prefecture and other territory organizations have been getting ready to the jubilee for more than a year. And the result went beyond all expectations as the event was really popular, large-scale and entertaining. The day started with Zelenograd builders monument opening ceremony at Yunosti square.