Gzhel ( rus, Гжель, p=ɡʐelʲ) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in

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, located southeast from the center of

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. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,006.Moscow Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census
Численность сельского населения и его размещение на территории Московской области
(''Rural Population and Its Distribution on the Territory of Moscow Oblast''). Volume III It gave its name to Gzhel ceramics as well as the

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and

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in the ICS

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. In a broader sense, the name may also refer to a cluster of rural localities in the vicinity of Gzhel and Rechitsy. An eponymous railway station on the Moscow–

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line has been operating since 1912, and a different settlement also named Gzhel is located in the vicinity. Gzhel stands on the banks of the Gzhelka River, known from the 1451 charter of

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, mother of

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, as Kzhelya. The year of Gzhel's foundation remains unknown, but it was first reliably documented in the 1784 population audit. Gzhel prospered in the end of 19th century; the 1871 population audit recorded eleven retail shops, fifteen pubs, five inns, and eighty-eight manufacturing shops. Farmland was scarce; most of the population made a living in ceramic trade or worked in Moscow. According to 1878 records, 952 local men and 177 women worked outside of Gzhel, yet the number of workers from other places was over 1,200, evenly balancing the equation. Unhealthy work environments promoted mass

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among locals and guest workers; in 1909, a privately funded free sanatorium for TB patients was built here.

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