Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow 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 transform еd 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. 3 of 40 1/13/2016 3:07 PM.