Yegoryevsk, Administrative center in Moscow Oblast, Russia
Yegoryevsk sits on the Guslitsa River in Moscow Oblast, roughly seventy miles southeast of Moscow, and includes buildings from the eighteen and nineteenth centuries scattered through residential streets. The layout extends from older neighborhoods near the river to wider roads lined with Soviet-era apartment blocks.
The village of Vysokoye appears in records from the fifteenth century and became a town in seventeen seventy-eight. Over the following decades, merchants and factory owners moved in, turning the settlement into a center for textile production.
The Yegoryevsk Museum holds an extensive collection of regional art, documents, and objects that reflect the traditions of local Old Believers communities.
The town center can be covered on foot, and most public buildings stand along the main road that runs from the railway station toward the central square. Visitors interested in older architecture will find signs pointing to notable buildings in the residential quarters near the river.
The Khludov brothers founded a cotton mill here in the mid-nineteenth century, and sections of the original redbrick factory buildings still stand alongside newer production halls. Parts of the compound remain in use for textile work, connecting the town to its manufacturing roots.
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