Veshchevo

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.

Type: Village with 1,630 residents
Description: railway town in Goncharovskoye rural settlement, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
Also known as: “Heinijoki”, “Kheynioki”, and “Kheynyoki”
Address: Выборгский район

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zhitkovo and Streltsovo.

Zhitkovo

Village

Zhitkovo is a settlement on Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast. It was known as Ristseppälä until 1948. It was a station of the Vyborg–Veshchevo–Zhitkovo–Michurinskoye railroad constructed by Finland in the 1920s. Zhitkovo is situated 7 km east of Veshchevo.

Streltsovo

Hamlet

Photo: Ninara, CC BY 2.0.

Streltsovo is a hamlet, which is situated 10 km southeast of Veshchevo.

Veshchevo

Categories: posyolok, urban-type settlement by the railway station, and locality
Location: Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude

60.68334° or 60° 41′ north

Longitude

29.20781° or 29° 12′ 28″ east

Population

1,630

Elevation

28 metres (92 feet)

Open location code

9GGFM6M5+84

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

Wikidata ID

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Veshchevo” goes by many names.

Armenian: “Վեշչևո”
Cebuano: “Veshchevo”
Chechen: “Вещево (станци)”
Chechen: “Вещево”
Finnish: “Heinjoen asemanseutu”
Finnish: “Heinjoki”
German: “Weschtschewo”
German: “Westschewo”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Heinjoki”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Vesjtsjovo”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vesjtsjovo”
Norwegian: “Vesjtsjevo”
Norwegian: “Vesjtsjovo”
Persian: “فرودگاه وشچوو”
Russian: “Вещево (посёлок при станции, Ленинградская область)”
Russian: “Вещево”
Russian: “Вещёво”
Swedish: “Heinjoki”
Ukrainian: “Вещево (селище при станції, Ленінградська область)”
Ukrainian: “Вещево”

Localities in the Area

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