Rublyovka

[6][7][a][b][c] The area was where the dachas of Lenin and Stalin were located,[d] as well as the summer residences of all the subsequent general secretaries, from Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev.

Their sidekicks also settled here (Anastas Mikoyan, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Nikolai Yezhov) – side-by-side with famous scientists, artists and writers (Mstislav Rostropovich, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Shostakovich), and foreign diplomats.

During the Soviet period, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev may have gone for a walk[editorializing] and encountered Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was being hunted by the KGB and hiding out at Mstislav Rostropovich's dacha.

[neutrality is disputed][9] In the mid-1990s, Rublyovka, which borders on the pristine and well-forested bank of the Moscow River was swiftly privatized by stars of show-business, the demi monde, officials and industrial magnates, and turned into a kind of a !millionaires' ghetto", or a Russian Beverly Hills, "where it is outrageous not to be good-looking".

There is a high-end shopping mall, Barvikha Luxury Village, where such brands as Prada, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana are offered.