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5.2 Sports

5.3 Entertainment

6 Politics

6.1 Executive

6.2 Moscow City Duma

6.3 Administrative divisions

7 Economy

7.1 Overview

7.2 Industry

7.3 Living costs

8 Science and education

9 Transportation

9.1 Air

9.2 Water

9.3 Railway

9.4 Metro

9.5 Bus and trolleybus

9.6 Monorail

9.7 Tram

9.8 Taxi

9.9 Roads

10 Future development

11 Media

11.1 Newspapers

11.2 TV and radio

12 Famous people

13 International relations

13.1 Twin towns and sister cities

13.2 Cooperation agreements

14 Rankings

15 See also

16 References

16.1 Notes

17 External links

History

Prehistory

The oldest evidence of humans on the territory of Moscow dates from the Neolithic (Schukinskaya site on the

Moscow River). Within the modern bounds of the city other late evidence was discovered (the burial ground of the

Fatyanovskaya culture, the site of the Iron Age settlement of the Dyakovo culture), on the territory of the Kremlin,

Sparrow Hills, Setun River and Kuntsevskiy forest park, etc.

The etymology of the name Moskva(originally Moskha, later when Slavic tribes conquered the city transformd to

Moscow because of the specificity of the Slavic languages ) is probably Uralic, perhaps Volga-Finnic (Mordvinic or

Merya).

In the 9th century, the Oka River was part of the Volga trade route, and the upper Volga watershed became an area

of contact between the indigenous Uralic peoples such as the Merya and the expanding Volga Bulgars (particularly

the second son of Khan Kubrat who expanded the borders of the Old Great Bulgaria), Germanic (Varangians) and

Slavic peoples.

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