Veshchevo
Sign in to saveVeshchevo (; ) is a rural locality on Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, and a station of the Vyborg–Zhitkovo railroad. The railway track between Veshchevo and Zhitkovo was, however, dismantled in 2001.
Key facts
- Airport.name
- Veshchevo
- Airport.image
- Вокзал_ст._Вещево.JPG
- Airport.image width
- 130px
- Airport.caption
- Veshchevo railway station
- Airport.type
- Military
- Airport.elevation f
- 154
- Airport.elevation m
- 47
- Airport.r1 length f
- 8,202
- Airport.r1 length m
- 2,500
- Airport.r1 surface
- Concrete
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Russia
- Population
- 1325
- Elevation
- 47
- Dialing code
- 81378
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- postal code
- 188902
- Commons category
- Veshchevo
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Veshchevo Air Base
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Veshchevo (; ) is a rural locality on Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, and a station of the Vyborg–Zhitkovo railroad. The railway track between Veshchevo and Zhitkovo was, however, dismantled in 2001.
Until the Winter War and the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, it had been the administrative center of the of the Viipuri province of Finland. Established in 1869, the Heinjoki municipality was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Veshchevo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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