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Yesterday, after visiting Yegoryevsk, we were returning home by way of the road to Likino-Dulyovo.  The rest of the day was open, and I decided to take a look at a monastery that was located near our route. . The entrance to the monastery is situated several meters from the road, and has a small parking area in front of it. This is the entrance to the monastery.  The town of Kurovskye is not a popular tourist spot, like the entire eastern part of the Moscow region, so Transfiguration Monastery of Guslitsy doesn't attract many visitors.  In fact, I think that--other than the woman in the photo above--I may have been the only out-of-towner there at the time. Transfiguration Monastery was founded through an initiative of Emperor Alexander II in 1858.  The main purposes of the new monastery were missionary work and the education of children.  The area where the monastery is situated was called Guslitsy in that time, and it was inhabited almost entire...

  I continue the last series of posts on the Industrial East with a report about Orekhovo-Zuevo. I visit this place rather frequently by different necessities. Orekhovo-Zuyevo is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 85 kilometers (53 mi.) east of Moscow, in a forested area on the Klyazma River (a tributary of the Oka). Formed in 1917, through the amalgamation of several industrial villages, Orekhovo-Zuyevo was one of the largest textile-manufacturing cities in Russia, specializing in cotton. Chemicals and engineering were also important, and peat was extracted in the area. The first known facts about what is now Orekhovo-Zuyevo date back to 1209. The place was mentioned in the Moscow Chronicles as "Volochok," where the battle between Vladimir's prince Yury and Ryazan's prince Izyaslav took place. The name "Volochok" (or, as it was later called, "Zuyev Volochok") is derived from the Slavic word for "portage": a place whe...