Москва, Алёшкинский лес, прогулка.(Moscow, Alyoshkinsky forest, walk.)

#forest Aleshkino - a former village in the north-west of Moscow, located on the territory of the Northern Tushino district - on the banks of the Moscow Canal. It was located at the confluence of the Cernavka stream (from the 19th century Grachevka) with the Khimka River (now Butakovskii Gulf of the Khimki Reservoir), on the right, high bank of the river. In Khimki there were pike, perch, chub. In the heat, the river almost dried up and at a width of 4 m it had a depth of 13 cm. The area of the Khimki river, an ancient trading artery, was inhabited at that time extremely densely. To the south of Aleshkin, downstream Khimki, was the village of Zakharkovo; To the north, above by Chernavka - Butakovo village . In the east, behind Chernavka, there was an ancient road to Tver (from 1817 - Petersburg, now Leningrad highway); Behind it was the village of Kosmodemianskoe with the church of Cosmas and Damian, the parish of which was Aleshkino [2]. And only in the west was located a large forest area, which separated the village from the villages of Bratsevo, Putilkovo and Petrovo. According to the «Economic Notes» of 1800, in the forest (birch, aspen) there were hares and foxes, the onslaught was wolves. The land was considered unimportant, the yields on it are «rodyatsa medically» The territory was inhabited at least from III millennium BC. E., That is, from the late Neolithic period. To the south of Alyoshkin, on the territory of the park «Northern Tushino», a Neolithic site of...