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Gorokhovets is a city of regional subordination in Russia. the administrative center of the Gorohovets district of the Vladimir region. One of the oldest cities in the region.
It forms the municipality of the same name, the city of Gorokhovets with the status of an urban settlement as the only settlement in its composition.
Population 12,617 people (2021).
It is located in the Volga-Oka interfluve, on the right bank of the Klyazma River, 157 km east of Vladimir, near the border with the Nizhny Novgorod Region. One of the oldest cities in the Vladimir region, since 1970 it has been included in the list of historical settlements of Russia. Many monuments of church and civil architecture from different eras have been preserved within the city and its environs.
The federal highway M-7 "Volga" passes through the city. Gorokhovets railway station (village of Velikovo) is located 12 km away.
