Vereshchagino

Vereshchagino

 

a city and center of Vereshchagino Raion, Perm’ Oblast, RSFSR. Railroad station 120 km west of Perm’. Population, 24,000 (1969). Vereshchagino is an important transportation center. It has railroad transport enterprises, a knitted-goods factory, meat and flour combines, and a milk plant. There is a cooperative technicum. Meat and milk production predominate in the suburbs. Vereshchagino arose at the end of the 19th century and became a city in 1942. It is named in honor of V. V. Vereshchagin.

REFERENCE

Tiunov, G. Z. Vereshchagino. Perm’, 1960.