Lyakhovo, Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast

Lyakhovo (Russian: Ля́хово) is a village in Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 75 kilometers (47 mi) south-east of Moscow.

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

[1] In the 19th century, it was a part of Zaponerskaya Volost of Bogoroditsky Uyezd.

As of 1862, the population of Lyakhovo consisted of 43 homesteads comprising 382 people (191 male and 191 female).

[2] The overwhelming majority of the population of Lyakhovo were Old Believers and from the end of the 19th century they were under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church.

Lyakhovo. Old Believers' Chapel
The communal Old Believers' Service in Lyakhovo for the Bright Easter Week. May 2, 2008.