Zhukovskii

a city in Moscow Oblast, RSFSR. Situated on the Moscow River, near the Otdykh railroad station, 40 km southeast of Moscow. Population, 76,000 (1971; 11,000, 1939). Zhukovskii was formed in 1947 from the settlement of Stakhanovo and named in honor of the Russian scholar N. E. Zhukovskii.