Vyoshenskaya

Staniza Vyoschenskaya Vushensky Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Scholokhovsky First mention 1672 population 9261 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 75  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86353 Post Code 346270 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 211 810 001 Website www.veshenskoe.ru Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 38 '  N , 41 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '45 "  N , 41 ° 43' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

Wjoschenskaja ( Russian Вёшенская ) is a Staniza in the Rostov Oblast ( Russia ) with 9261 inhabitants (as of 14 October 2010).

geography

The village is located in the southern Russian steppe zone , about 300 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the administrative center of Rostov-on-Don on the left bank of the Don .

Wjoschenskaja is the administrative center of the Rajons Scholochowski and seat the rural community Wjoschenskoje selskoje posselenije, which also includes the Staniza Jelanskaja (22 km to the east) and the five Weiler (Chutor) (km east-northeast 15) Andropowski, Krasnojarowski (18 km to the east), Lebjaschenski (14 km east-southeast), Pigarewski (3 km west of the center) and Solonzowski (17 km east-northeast).

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  Stanitsa Vyoschenskaya 1904

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  Archangel Michael Church in Vyoshenskaya (mid-18th century)

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  Mikhail Sholokhov's first house in Vyoschenskaya (museum)

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  The Don in Vyoshenskaya

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  Lenin monument in Vyoschenskaya

history

A Cossack städtchen under the name Wjoschki was first documented in 1672, but was located further downstream of the current situation. In 1740, due to the frequent floods, the settlement was moved to today's higher location, where previously there was a stanitsa named Reshetovskaya .

From the end of the 18th century, the village belonged to the land of the Don Army (from 1870 referred to as the Oblast of the Don Army ), and within this, from the introduction of an administrative division in 1835, to the Ust-Medveditski okrug with its seat in Stanitsa, about 70 km to the east Ust-Medveditskaja (today Serafimowitsch ). With the spin-off of the Verkhne-Donskoi okrug ("Upper Don District") in 1918, Stanitsa Wjoschenskaja became its administrative seat. Between March 11 and June 8, 1919, one of the most important Cossack uprisings against the Bolsheviks took place there during the Russian Civil War .

With the introduction of the Rajon division in 1924, Vyoschenskaya became the administrative seat of a Rajon named after Stanitsa (Vyoschenski rajon).

During the Second World War , the summer offensive of the German Wehrmacht and its allies came to a halt on the Don in mid-July 1942, including against Vyoshenskaya. In the Vyoschenskaya-Jelanskaya area, the Red Army was able to hold a bridgehead on the right bank. The front ran there until mid-December 1942, when, after the successful encirclement of the German troops in Stalingrad , the Red Army also attacked further northwest on the Don. As a result of the situation near the front for several months, the Stanitsa was destroyed.

After the death of the writer Michail Scholokhov , who was born there , the Rajon received his name on June 4, 1984.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	2555
1939	4208
1959	4319
1970	6965
1979	7865
1989	9578
2002	9317
2010	9261

Note: census data

traffic

Regional road 60K-16, coming from Millerowo on the federal highway M4 Don from the southwest via Kaschary, leads to Vyoschenskaya . Via a bridge built in 1985, it crosses the Don west (above) the Stanitsa. From Vyoschenskaya to the northeast, the road continues as 60K-335 to the Volgograd Oblast border about 30 km away , there further as 18K-5 in the direction of Mikhailovka  - Schirnowsk . The 60N-40 runs in a north-westerly direction to the neighboring district center of Kazanskaya .

The nearest train stations are about 150 km away by road in Millerowo on the Moscow  - Voronezh  - Rostov route and in Michailowka on the (Moscow -) Gryazi  - Volgograd route .

A small airport northwest of the town ( ICAO code URRW ) has not been used for regular passenger traffic since the 2000s at the latest, but is used for other civil aviation.

Personalities

The writer Mikhail Scholokhov (1905–1984), who was born in the hamlet of Kruschilinski a good 20 km south of Stanitsa and won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature , lived mostly in Vyoschenskaya from 1928 onwards.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)