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Davydovo (Давы́дово) is a village in Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located some 78 km south-east of Moscow and 30 km south of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. Municipally, the village is a administrative center of Davydovo Rural Settlement. Population: 11,840 (1997), 12,000 (2004). Postal code: 142641.

Davydovo was first mentioned in 1631.

The village of Davydovo concerns to a part of the historical area of Zakhod included by the majority of historians in Guslitsa. The overwhelming majority of the population of village were Old Believers. An Old Believers' (Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church) Feast of the Cross church is located in Davydovo.

In Davydovo some enterprises are located. Most known of them — a factory on manufacture of automobile tires Michelin.