Skhodnya

Skhodnya (Russian: Сходня) was formerly a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Skhodnya River some 12 km northwest of Moscow.

On September 15, 2004, it was merged into the city of Khimki.

Skhodnya was founded in 1874 and granted town status in 1961.

In 1974, a former manor house in Skhodnya was the site of a camp training Middle Eastern terrorists in the use of small arms, explosives, military tactics, and ideology.

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