 The Moscow–Kursk railway laid in the immediate proximity of the village has allowed a group of manufacturers in 1882 to begin here the construction of a factory for the manufacture of spare parts for the weaving looms necessary for the cotton-mills of the central provinces of Russia.When its status as a town was abolished in 2015, it became part of the city of Podolsk.It was the only inhabited locality of the former Klimovsk Urban Okrug.