Shuvoye is a settlement in Yegoryevsky District

Yegoryevsky District, Moscow Oblast

Yegoryevsky District, Moscow Oblast is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 38 in Moscow Oblast, Russia....

 of Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast , or Podmoskovye , is a federal subject of Russia . Its area, at , is relatively small compared to other federal subjects, but it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and, with the 2010 population of 7,092,941, is the second most populous federal subject...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the Shuvoyka River

Shuvoyka River

The Shuvoyka River , also known as Suvoya River is a river in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Guslitsa River . It is 12 km in length. Source on northeast in 6 km from the city of Yegoryevsk...

 (Guslitsa

Guslitsa River

The Guslitsa River , also known as Guslyanka is a river in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Nerskaya River . It is 36 km in length. Source near the city of Yegoryevsk. Flows all over again on the North, and then on the West, running in the Nerskaya at the village Khoteichi...

's tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

). Shuvoye is the administrative center of Shuvoyskoye Rural Settlement. Postal code: 140342. Dialing code

Telephone numbers in Europe

Most country calling codes for the European Union countries start with +3x or +4x. The international access code has been standardised as 00.Some countries that are considered by Copenhagen criteria part of Europe use numbers outside that range, namely the Asia range +9:*+90 – Turkey*+994...

: +7 49640.

The settlement was founded in 1627. In 1935, it was granted urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

 status. During Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 times, it was called Krasny Tkach ; the original name was restored in August 2001. In December 2001, it was demoted to a settlement of rural type.

The settlement is located in the historical area of Guslitsa

Guslitsa

Guslitsa, Guslica, or Guslicy is a region situated in the eastern part of Moscow Oblast. Guslitsa is famous for it was almost entirely inhabited by the Old Believers, mainly popovtsy...

. There is a wooden Old Believers

Old Believers

In the context of Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers separated after 1666 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652–66...

' (Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church

Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church

The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, born from a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church following the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of 17th century...

) Trinity Church built in 1924 in Shuvoye.

External links

• Temples.ru Pictures of the Trinity Church in Shuvoye