Timiryazevsky District

Timiryazevsky District (Russian: Тимирязевский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion) of Northern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia.

The total area of the district is 10.43 square kilometers (4.03 sq mi).

Timiryazavsky Park is near the site of the Petrovsko-Razumovskoye estate.

[5] On the grounds was built the Razumovsky Palace, the architect of which was Nicholas Benois.

[4] The academy, and the district, are named for Kliment Timiryazev, a botanist who established a faculty and laboratory of vegetable physiology at the Petrovsky Academy.