Drezna (russian: Дрезна́) is a

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Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District (russian: Оре́хово-Зу́евский райо́н) 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 ...

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, located on the river

Drezna Drezna (russian: Дрезна́) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the river Drezna (Klyazma), Drezna (Klyazma's tributary) east of Moscow. Population: History ...

(

Klyazma The Klyazma (, ''Klyaz'ma''), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...

) east of

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. Population:

History

It was founded by

Ivan Zimin Ivan Nikitich Zimin (russian: Иван Никитич Зимин; 1818-1887) was a Russian industrialist who developed Drezna as a mill town. His sons, Sergei and Grigory Zimin inherited his business, but his wife, Evdokia Savvateevna, remaine ...

in 1897 as a

mill town A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles. Europe Italy * '' Crespi d'Adda'', UNESCO World H ...

. It was named after the Drezna River. The mill utilised machinery supplied by

Howard & Bullough Howard & Bullough was a firm of textile machine manufacturers in Accrington, Lancashire. The company was the world's major manufacturer of power looms in the 1860s. History The firm of Howard and Bleakley was founded in 1851 with four workers ...

for spinning and by

Platt Brothers Platt Brothers, also known as Platt Bros & Co Ltd, was a British company based at Werneth in Oldham, North West England. The company manufactured textile machinery and were iron founders and colliery proprietors. By the end of the 19th centur ...

for weaving. Drezna was granted town status in 1940.СССР. Административно-территориальное деление союзных республик на 1 января 1980 года / Сост. В. А. Дударев, Н. А. Евсеева. — М.: Известия, 1980. — 702 с. — С. 174.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated within

as the

Town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares ...

of Drezna.Resolution #123-PG As a municipal division, the Town of Drezna is incorporated within Orekhovo-Zuyevsky Municipal District as Drezna Urban Settlement.Law #67/2005-OZ

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External links

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Drezna Business Directory
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