Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Moscow, TN

Moscow is an incorporated city in Fayette County, Tennessee, and its name is pronounced "MOS-koh."

Moscow was named for Moscow, Russia, by founder J. A. Dilliard to honor his wife Alexandra, a native of that city whom he had met on an 1834 business trip to Russia.

The 2020 census counted 572 people in Moscow.

The 2020 census recorded 218 households and 246 housing units in the city.

The Census Bureau classified all of Moscow's residents as rural in 2020, and the median age was 35.7 years; Black or African American residents made up 55.9 percent of the population and white residents 39.7 percent.

Moscow is known as the "Land Between Two Rivers" and sits at the confluence of the Wolf River and its North Fork, though the Army Corps of Engineers later rerouted the river channel west of town.

At the Battle of Moscow on December 4, 1863, Confederate cavalry under General Stephen D. Lee tried to burn the railroad bridge over the Wolf River and was thwarted by African-American Union troops; General Stephen A. Hurlbut's dispatch of December 17, 1863 praised the "colored troops" who defended the town.

Tennessee State Route 57 runs through Moscow, with Grand Junction 13 miles east and Collierville 15 miles west, while State Route 76 leads 13 miles north to Somerville, the Fayette County seat; Memphis is 38 miles to the west.

Moscow's founder's niece, Lucy Pickens of nearby La Grange, accompanied her husband to Russia when he served as United States ambassador there, and he later represented the Confederacy to the Russian Emperor during the Civil War.

Moscow recorded a record high temperature of 110 degrees Fahrenheit on July 28, 1952, and a record low of minus 14 degrees on February 2, 1951.