Peshkovskaya Explained

Official Name:	Peshkovskaya
Native Name:	Пешковская
Settlement Type:	Village
Pushpin Map:	Russia Vologda Oblast#Russia
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Russia
Subdivision Name1:	Vologda Oblast
Subdivision Name3:	Syamzhensky District
Subdivision Type4:	Municipality
Utc Offset1:	+3:00
Coordinates:	59.9333°N 50°W^[1]

Peshkovskaya (Russian: Пешковская) is a rural locality (a village) in Zhityovskoye Rural Settlement, Syamzhensky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 28 as of 2002.^[2]

Geography

Peshkovskaya is located 12 km southeast of Syamzha (the district's administrative centre) by road. Yakovlevskaya is the nearest rural locality.^[3]

In 1965 a memorial obelisk was erected in Pashkovskaya to remember the night witch Polina Makogon and other pilots.^[4]

Notes and References

1. https://mapdata.ru/vologodskaya-oblast/syamzhenskiy-rayon/peshkovskaya-derevnya/ Пешковская деревня на карте
2. Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.
3. http://allroutes.ru/rasstoyanie_peshkovskaja_sjamzha Расстояние от Пешковской до Сямжи
4. Web site: MILITARY HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. Partnership project of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver region, the Archival department of the administration of the Tver region, Tver regional library. A.M. Gorky, Tver University Internet Center.