Naro-Fominsk
The modern Naro-Fominsk was established as an urban-type settlement as a result of the merger of the villages of Fominskoye, Malaya Nara and Malkovo in 1925.[citation needed] The town was severely damaged during World War II after Nazi Germany forces destroyed 687 buildings and a textile factory during the Battle of Moscow in 1941.Naro-Fominsk silk factory was the first in the USSR to produce fabric "Bologna" in the early 1960s.[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with twelve rural localities, incorporated within Naro-Fominsky District as the Town of Naro-Fominsk.The town is home to the 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, part of the Western Military District.