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Yegoryevsk Егорьевск | |
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| Coordinates:55°23′N39°03′E / 55.383°N 39.050°E /55.383; 39.050 | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Moscow Oblast[1] |
| Administrative district | Yegoryevsky District[1] |
| TownSelsoviet | Yegoryevsk[1] |
| Known since | 1462 |
| Town status since | 1778 |
| Elevation | 150 m (490 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 70,081 |
• Estimate (2024)[3] | 71,169 (+1.6%) |
| • Rank | 226th in 2010 |
| • Capital of | Yegoryevsky District,[1] Town of Yegoryevsk[1] |
| • Municipal district | Yegoryevsky Municipal District[4] |
| • Urban settlement | Yegoryevsk Urban Settlement[4] |
| • Capital of | Yegoryevsky Municipal District,[4] Yegoryevsk Urban Settlement[4] |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK  [5]) |
| Postal codes[6] | 140300–140306, 140308 |
| OKTMO ID | 46522000001 |
Yegoryevsk (Russian:Его́рьевск) is atown and theadministrative center ofYegoryevsk Urban Settlement inMoscow Oblast,Russia, located on the bank of theGuslitsa River 114 kilometers (71 mi) southeast ofMoscow.
Yegoryevsk was named in honor of St. Egor (Saint George).
When it was founded in 1462, it was known as the village ofVysokoye (Высо́кое). It was granted town status in 1778.[citation needed] The new town was quite small with a population of only 280 males and 295 females, mostly consisting of merchants and burgesses.
Yegoryevsk was famous for its annualfairs, where bread was mainly sold. In the 19th century, Yegoryevsk became a center of the Russian textile industry. The Khludov brothers cotton factory has been in operation since 1845 - it has survived to this day and its clocktowers are one of the main sights of the town. A lot of the town's development happened from 1872 to 1901, under the mayorN. M. Bardygin [ru]. At his order, the Moscow architectI. T. Baryutin [ru] built the Egoryevsk Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School named afterTsarevich Alexei, and the Holy Trinity Mariinsky Convent was rebuilt.
Yegoryevsk is also an important center ofOld Believers.
Within theframework of administrative divisions, Yegoryevsk serves as theadministrative center ofYegoryevsky District.[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with sixty-tworural localities, incorporated within Yegoryevsky District as theTown of Yegoryevsk.[1] As amunicipal division, the Town of Yegoryevsk is incorporated within Yegoryevsky Municipal District asYegoryevsk Urban Settlement.[4]
The town is home to many historic buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as a museum with both art and artifacts of daily life in earlier centuries.
Yegoryevsk was home to the 924th Center of Combat Application forUAVs, prior to the center being reincorporated inKolomna as the 1327th UAV Combat Training Center in 2009.[7]
Yegoryevsk istwinned with:
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