Gus-Khrustalny is a town in Vladimir Oblast

Vladimir Oblast

Vladimir Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Vladimir, which is located east of Moscow...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the Gus River

Gus River

Gus is a river in Vladimir and Ryazan Oblasts, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Oka River.The length of Gus River is .The names of several inhabited localities locating along the river's bank are derived from the river's name ....

 (a tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Oka River

Oka River

Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...

) 63 kilometres (39.1 mi) south of Vladimir

Vladimir

Vladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway. Population:...

. Population: 65,000 (1970); 40,000 (1939); 17,900 (1926).

The name of the town may be translated as "crystal goose", for it is known as one of the oldest centers of glass

Glass

Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...

 industry in Russia and stands on the Gus (Goose) River. There are reasons to believe that its name is not derived from goose

Goose

The word goose is the English name for a group of waterfowl, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller....

directly, but rather from the common Slavic term "goose" (in the respective languages) for a large (up to several gallons) bottle.

Gus-Khrustalny was founded in the mid-18th century with the construction of a crystal

Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as crystallography...

 plant. It was granted town status in 1931.

Gus-Khrustalny is one of the towns of the Golden Ring.