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Khimki - the city (since 1939) of regional subordination in the Moscow region of Russia. One of the major satellite cities of Moscow. According to current population statistics at the beginning of 2010 amounted to 188.5 thousand inhabitants, but according to preliminary census data for October 14, 2010 the population was 207,125 people. Khimki - the second most populous city after Moscow region Balashikha a population of 215.3 thousand people. Located on the banks of the Moscow Canal. The city is directly adjacent to the north-west of Moscow (the border runs along the Moscow ring road), as well as from the west, north and east is surrounded by an exclave of Moscow and the regions Kurkino Molzhaninovsky (border with Khimki Novokurkino neighborhoods is, in particular, and Novokurkinskomu Mashkinskomu Highway .) Khimki - the only town that is part of the city of Khimki District in Khimki is the administration of the urban district. The name of the town of Khimki has received from the river, which was based preceded the settlement of the town. The ultimate origins and meaning of the name of the river has not yet been elucidated. In ancient times, was used Hinska form, Hynska in XVI-XVII centuries. - Hink, Khimki, in some villages - Khilok (upper) and output (lower reaches). The form of "Khimki" definitively established only in the XIX century. Form of "hinka" can be associated with appellatives Khin - "nonsense, nonsense, nonsense" (Dahl, IV): Russian dialect (ryazyanskoe) "hinyu" - "useless, wasted." This means that "Hink" - a small river. Over time, the word "Khin" was little used, but later ceased to be used at all and was perceived as funny. The sense of his relationship with the title "Hink" was lost, it has been rethought, perhaps under the influence of which was a part in the use of the word "chemistry". According to legend, the river was named after a girl Khimki, the daughter of a wealthy man who drowned in the river. Was it an accident or a result of unrequited love, a popular tradition of not giving a clear answer. But such is the tradition, and old men in ancient times it was told. It is possible, and Baltic origin hydronym (srednelitovskoe himinas - «Moss"), or from a man named Khimki - vernacular form of the Efimov (Fimka). Also, the name associated with the concept of Khilok - the upper path (output), since it is assumed that the Khimki was a trade route (it is possible that the similar (Vskhodne) "ascended" to the watershed from the Klyazma, and on Khilok - descended from him). According to the XIX century, were carried out in Khimki pike, perch, roach, chub. In the heat of the river is almost dried up, and with a width of 2 fathoms (4 meters) depth was 3 inches (ca. 13 cm). Currently, most of the former river channel runs Khimki them. Moscow. The upper reaches of the river remained in Khimki, near the former village Lobanov.