Vereshchagino, Perm Krai
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It was founded in 1898 as a settlement serving the construction of Ochyorskaya railway station of the Perm–VyatkaKirov, Kirov Oblast
Kirov , formerly known as Vyatka and Khlynov, is a city in northeastern European Russia, on the Vyatka River, and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast. Population: -History:...
railroad. In 1904, the station was renamed Voznesenskaya , and in 1916—Vereshchagino (after the painter Vasily Vereshchagin who stopped here in 1904). It was granted town status in 1942.