🏛 Shokin Square and MIET

пл. Шокина, Зеленоград

The heart of the "Soviet Silicon Valley": the square in front of the Institute of Electronic Technology, named after the minister who made Zelenograd a centre of microelectronics.

Construction of Zelenograd began in 1958 as a satellite city of Moscow.
In the early 1960s the city was re-profiled as a centre of microelectronics.
The square is named after Alexander Shokin, USSR Minister of the Electronics Industry from 1965 to 1985.
MIET — the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology — was founded in 1965.

Part of these routes

Zelenograd: microelectronics, a pond and the “Flute”