Khoteichi () is a
village
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(''
selo'') 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 ...
of
Moscow Oblast
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,
Russia
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, located on the
Nerskaya River
The Nerskaya () is a river in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Moskva. It is 92 km in length, with a drainage basin of 1,510 km². (
Moskva
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's
tributary
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). Municipally, the village is a part of Sobolevskoye Rural Settlement (the administrative center of which is the village of
Sobolevo Sobolevo () is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural localities in Russia:
*Sobolevo, Bryansk Oblast, a village#Russia, village in Peklinsky Rural Administrative Okrug of Dubrovsky District in Bryansk Oblast;
*Sobolevo, ...
). Population: 751 (1997). Postal code: 142649.
Khoteichi was first mentioned in 1631.
A
Trinity
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church (of
the Moscow Patriarchate) is located in Khoteichi. The church was consecrated in 1823. In 1939, the church was closed and partially destroyed. Restoration of the church has begun in 1995.
The village is located in the historical area 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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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 ...
portal
Information about Khoteichi
*Website of icon-drawing workshop "Khramdecor"
Iconostasises of Trinity church of the village of Khoteichi (2004—2005)
*Website of Orekhovo-Zuyevo Protopriest
Information about Trinity church of the village of Khoteichi
*Official website of Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast
Information about Sobolevskoye Rural Settlement
Rural localities in Moscow Oblast
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