Lukhovitsy (Russian: Лухови́цы) is a town and the administrative center of Lukhovitsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River 135 kilometers (84 mi) southeast of Moscow.

[7] It was first mentioned in 1594 as the settlement of Glukhovichi (Глуховичи), a votchina of a Ryazan archbishop.

[citation needed] It used to be called Lukhovichi (Луховичи) until the mid-1920s.

[citation needed] The town grew rapidly after the transfer of testing (and later production) facilities of the Mikoyan design bureau.

[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with the settlement of stantsii Chernaya, incorporated within Lukhovitsky District as the Town of Lukhovitsy.