The settlement was founded in 1627. In 1935, it was granted urban-type settlement status.[1] During Soviet times, it was called Krasny Tkach (Кра́сный Ткач, lit. red weaver); the original name was restored in August 2001.[2] In December 2001, it was demoted to a settlement of rural type.[3]
The settlement is located in the historical area of Guslitsa. There is a wooden Old Believers' (Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church) Trinity Church built in 1924 in Shuvoye, a rare instances of a church having been built during the Soviet era.
^Администрация Московской области. Организационно-контрольное управление (1999). Справочник по административно-территориальному устройству Московской области. Москва: ГУП ИПК "Ульяновский Дом печати". p. 13.
^Правительство Российской Федерации. Постановление №610 от 21 августа 2001 г. «О присвоении наименований географическим объектам и переименовании географических объектов в Республике Саха (Якутия), Краснодарском и Красноярском краях, Воронежской, Иркутской, Калужской, Кировской, Московской, Новгородской и Ярославской областях». (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #610 of August 21, 2001 On Naming Geographical Objects and Renaming Geographical Objects in the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk Krais, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Kaluga, Kirov, Moscow, Novgorod, and Yaroslavl Oblasts. ).
