[citation needed] In 1482, it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Moscow with the rest of the Principality of Tver.

A short time later, on December 19, the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom Ivan Maysky visited the town with more than twenty correspondents during Eden's first diplomatic mission to Moscow.

[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with sixty-one rural localities, incorporated within Klinsky District as the Town of Klin.

Local association football team Khimik plays in the Moscow Oblast league.

Titan Klin play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey.