There are 10 groups of burial mounds of Vyatichi and one of the medieval Slavic tribes, dated 12 - 13th century.[5]
There are many version of origin of the name Chertanovo. According to Vladimir Toporov, the name of Chertanovo village derives from name Chertanovka river and its name derives from medieval Finno-Ugric languages.
Chertanovo village was located on the territory of modern Northern Chertanovo district near Chertanovo railway platform.
Chertanovo village was mentioned for the first time in 1665 in the book by S.A. Belokurov "Daily notes of Prikaz of Secret Affairs" (Moscow, 1908): "On December 28, on Saturday, the great sovereign desired to go to Cheratnovo in an hour before dawn" (Russian: "декабря в 28 день в субботу великий государь изволил итить в Чертаново за час до света"). However, it was not mentioned in census books in 1646. Therefore, Chertanovo village may have been built between 1646 and 1665.
Additionally, 8 other villages were situated on today's Chertanovo territory:
Krasnoe sel`tso (сельцо Красное; Red village; sel`tso is a historical type of inhabited localities in Russia)
Krasny Mayak sovkhoz (совхоз Красный Маяк; Red lighthouse state farm)
Biryulyovo sel`tso (сельцо Бирюлёво)
Pokrovskoye selo or Pokrovskoye-Gorodnya selo (село Покровское or село Покровское-Городня; Intercession village; "Pokrov" means Intercession of the Theotokos i.e. Protection of the Virgin; selo meant a village with a Church)
Pokrovskiye Vyselki village (деревня Покровские Выселки; vyselki is a type of inhabited localities meaning "village of evicted people"; that is, a new village found by people who resettled)
Krasny Stroitel` (Red Builder) workmen's settlement or Gazoprovod (Gas pipeline) workmen's settlement (рабочий посёлок Красный строитель or рабочий посёлок Газопровод)
Mosstroyput` settlement (посёлок Мосстройпуть; meaning Moscow communications development), formerly known as settlement of Communications Department (посёлок МПС, Министерства Путей Сообщения)
Annino village (деревня Аннино; "Ann`s village")
In 1960, Chertanovo and all territories right up to modern Moscow Ring Road became a part of Moscow.
Since the late 1960s intensive building of houses of mass (panel) series began. (architects: V. Voznesensky, T. Drozdova, V. Serzhantov, V. Gromoglasov, N. Suzdaleva). In the late 1970s, building of Exemplary Perspective Housing Area began in Northern Chertanovo (engineers: L. Dubek, architects M. Posokhin, A. Shapiro, L. Misozhnikov, A. Kegler, Yu. Ivanov, B. Malyarchuk, V. Loginov, V. Uborevich-Borovsky, V. Dadya etc.). In 1980, it was used as an Olympic village. Now this territory is called microrayon Chertanovo Severnoye (microdistrict Northern Chertanovo) and is part of Chertanovo Severnoye District.
Geography and transport
Chertanovo, Bitsa Park and neighbour Moscow districts
The northern border of the area is Balaklavsky (Balaklava) prospekt (avenue); the eastern border is Paveletsky and Kursky railway lines; the southern border is Moscow Ring Road; the western border is a border of Bitsa Park.
The territory of Chertanovo is a plain.
Rivers
Two main rivers:
Chertanovka
Gorodnya
Other rivers:
Vodyanka, right tributary of Chertanovka (it may mean merely "Water river")
Krasny (Red) creek, right tributary of Chertanovka
Kotlyakovka, left tributary of Gorodnya
Teplyakovsky creek
Ponds
16 ponds are located in Chertanovo, most of them are formed from two main rivers:
Bol`shoy Chertanovsky (Big Chertanovo) pond
Maly Chertanovsky (Small Chertanovo) pond
Verkhny (Upper Chertanovo) Chertanovsky pond
Krasny (Red) pond
Kirovogradskiye (Kirovograd) ponds
Varshavskiye (Warsaw) ponds
Pokrovsky (Intercession) pond
Sobachy (Dog`s) pond
Khrulyov pond and others
Buildings
A large part of the territory is occupied by high-rise buildings. Apartment buildings can have anywhere from three (old houses in Annino historical region in South Chertanovo district) to 39 storeys (modern building "Avenue 77"[6]). The majority of the buildings are blocks of flats of 9 or 17 storeys.
An industrial zone is situated in the eastern part of Chertanovo, however most of the plants do not work and its buildings are used for offices of different companies.
Chertanovo rail stop with a platform (In contrast to the railway station stopping point, the tracks don't branch) of the Paveletsky suburban line (Northern Chertanovo district), since 1936
Pokrovskoye (Intercession station; Pokrovskoye was the name of the village) of Kursky suburban line (Central Chertanovo district), since 1949
Krasny Stroitel station with a platform (Red Builder station. Red Builder was the name of the workmen's settlement) of Kursky suburban line (South Chertanovo district), since 1929
Other public transportation
Four bus parks, one of which is located in Cheratnovo (17th bus park), service 36 bus routes.
Bus numbers: 28, 37, 118, 147, 160, 163, 168, 189, 218, 222, 225, 241, 249, 296, 624, 635, 643, 668, 671, 674, 675, 680, 682, 683, 784, 786, 796, 797, 819, 828, 831 and others
Kirovogradsky bul`var (Kirovograd parkway) (2008) is a well-organized pedestrian street from Chertanovskaya metro station to Kirovogradskaya street, passing over the metro line.
Cinema of cinema circuit "Cinema park" (Interros), Dnepropetrovskaya street, 2 (shopping centre "Global City"), since April 2007.
"Sezon Cinema" ("Season of Cinema"), Krasnogo Mayaka street, 2б (shopping centre «Prazhsky passage»).
Cinema of cinema circuit "Formula Kino" ("Formula of movies"), microdistrict Chertanovo Severnoye, 1А (shopping centre "Aventura").
Memorials
"Training airfield (fragment) in Cheratnovo": a monument to the pilots who died during World War II, Kirovogradskaya street, estate 10. In 1970 obelisk was opened. On May 9, 1995, at the initiative of front-line soldier and poet A.V. Tsvetkov and other members of district Council of Veterans, V.I. Bakhtin and L.I. Rappoport and subprefect of municipal formation "Chertanovo Severnoye" E.I. Mulenkov, opened the monument of memory. Authors: sculptor A.M. Ryleev and architect M.I. Sudakov. The memorial is dedicated to crew of bomber warplane SB-2 of 173st air regiment who was brought down on October 1, 1941 (during World War II):
- Yury Petrovich Tikhomirov, unit commander, pilot, lieutenant (1919-1941)
