Vereshchagino, city (Perm krai)
Vereshchagino is a town and the administrative center of Vereshchaginsky District in Perm Krai, Russia. The town was founded in 1898 as a settlement serving the construction of Ochyorskaya railway station of the Perm–Vyatka railway. In 1904, the station was renamed Voznesenskaya, and in 1916—Vereshchagino (after the war artist Vasily Vereshchagin, who stopped here in 1904). It was granted town status in 1942. The town is often called as Ural western gates. The Vereschagino district’s neighbors are Udmurtia and a few of Perm Krai, such as Ocher, Siva, Karagay and Nitva districts. The town population is about 22 thousand people. The main railway line Moscow – Vladivostok is lied through the town. Within the framework of administrative divisions, Vereshchagino serves as the administrative center of Vereshchaginsky District, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the town of Vereshchagino, together with ten rural localities, is incorporated within Vereshchaginsky Municipal District as Vereshchaginskoye Urban Settlement. Town's economy includes food industry, production of knitwear, manufacture of spare parts and reinforced concrete structures form the basis of the town's economy. The town is also a large railway traffic center.
