Tuchkovo is a Russian urban-type settlement with 17,381 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the western Moscow Oblast. It belongs to the district Rusa and is located about 80 km west of Moscow on the railway line Moscow-Smolensk.

Russia, the world’s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky ballet companies. St. Petersburg, founded by Russian leader Peter the Great, has the baroque Winter Palace, now housing part of the State Hermitage Museum’s art collection.

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