SHUYA  , a

town in the government of Vladimir, 68 m. by rail N.E. of the town of Vladimir . It is one of the chief centres of the cotton and linen industries in middle Russia . It is built on the high left bank of the navigable Teza, a tributary of the Klyazma, with two suburbs on the right bank . Annalists mention princes of Shuya in 1403 . Its first linen manufactures were established in 1755; but in ISoo its population did not exceed 1500 . In 1882 it had 19,56o inhabitants, and 18,968 in 1897 . Tanneries, especially for the preparation of sheepskins—widely renowned throughout Russia—still maintain their importance, although this industry has migrated to a great extent to the country districts . The cathedral (1799) is a large building, with five gilt cupolas . Nearly every village in the vicinity has a specialty of its own—bricks, pottery, wheels, toys, packing-boxes, looms and other weaving implements, house furniture, sieves, combs, boots, gloves, felt goods, candles, and so on . The manufacture of linen and cotton in the villages, as well as the preparation and manufacture of sheepskins and rough gloves, occupies about 40,000 peasants . The Shuya merchants carry on an active trade in these products all over Russia, and in corn, spirits, salt and other food stuffs, imported .