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Juscha (Russian Южа ) is a city in the Ivanovo (Russia) with 14.170 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 95 km southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Ivanovo at the small lake Wjasal in the catchment area of the Volga.

Juscha is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

A settlement in the area of the present town is known since the beginning of the 15th century. In a deed of Prince Pozharsky, an ancestor of Dmitry Pozharsky of 1557 the area is mentioned as Juschski Rubesch (derived from the Finno-Ugric word jug for river; Rubesch is a Russian word for border).

A village called Juscha was first mentioned in 1628.

1860 was a factory for cotton fabrics with associated workers' housing estate.

1925, the city charter was granted.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926-1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

Ten kilometers west of the city lies in Rajon Juscha at the Tesa, a left tributary of the Klyazma, the village Cholui, one of the three famous for its folk lacquer painting locations in the area; the others are the south to dJ Lorenzo and Palekh further north. There is a museum of art Choluier in which besides lacquer painting also produced here embroideries can be seen.

Economy and infrastructure

In Juscha there are companies in the textile and wood processing industry. In the area of peat is mined in significant quantities.

The nearest railway station is located in about 40 km south Wjasniki at the Moscow- Nizhny Novgorod, already in the Vladimir Oblast. After Wjasniki there is a road link, as in the direction of Shuja.

Beginning in 1901, a narrow gauge railway network was built around Juscha initially mainly for the Torftransport. It grew gradually with the power to Balakhna in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast together and reached to the west of the city Shuja. The overall network with a length of about 360 kilometers in the 1970s and one of its most important railway stations in Juscha was one of the most important in the Soviet Union. In the sparsely populated marshy area with relatively wide-meshed network of roads, the narrow-gauge railway played an important role in passenger transport. From the late 1980s, the network saw its decline; 2004, the last stretch was decommissioned.

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