Barskoye () is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

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) in

Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #67/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrat ...

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...

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, located some southeast of

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. Municipally, the village is a part of Davydovsky Rural Settlement (the administrative center of which is the village of Davydovo). Postal code: 142641.

History

The village is located in the historical area of Zakhod (a part of

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 (Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, now — Russian Orthodox Ol ...

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. In the 19th century, it was called Barskaya () and was a part of Zaponorskaya Volost of

Bogorodsky Uyezd Bogorodsky Uyezd () was one of the subdivisions of the Moscow Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the eastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Bogorodsk (Noginsk). Demographics At the time of the Russian E ...

Moscow Governorate The Moscow Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire. It was bordered by Tver Governorate to the north, Vladimir Governorate to the northeast, Ryazan Governorate to the southeast, Tula Gove ...

. The overwhelming majority of the population of Barskoye were

Old Believers Old Believers or Old Ritualists ( Russian: староверы, ''starovery'' or старообрядцы, ''staroobryadtsy'') is the common term for several religious groups, which maintain the old liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian ...

, who from the end of the 19th century were guided by the

Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (or Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Russian Orthodox Old-Ritualist Church, ) is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, which rejected the liturgical and canonical reforms of Patri ...

Population

In 1852, the village consisted of 34 homesteads comprising 198 inhabitants (95 male and 103 female).

Orekhovo-Zuyevo Orekhovo-Zuyevo (, ) is an industrial city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow in a forested area on the Klyazma River (a tributary of the Oka). Orekhovo (), often pronounced only as ''Orekh'', is a Russian word which means "nut ...

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Information about Barskoye
By 1925, the population grew to 68 homesteads comprising 274 inhabitants.

References

Rural localities in Moscow Oblast Old Believer communities in Russia Zakhod {{MoscowOblast-geo-stub