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Before 1954 , it was named Lopasnya ().

Population: 72,917 (( 2002 Census )), 56,000 ( 1985 ).

Fifteen kilometers away from Chekhov, in the village of Melikhovo, there is a museum of Anton Chekhov .

On the outskirts of Chekhov lies the Davidov Hermitage , reputedly the richest monastery in Russia. It contains many churches from the 17th and 18th centuries.