Vyoshki | |
Elevation Max Ft: | 571 |
Population Total: | 1,058 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Elevation Max M: | 174 |
Native Name: | Вёшки |
Other Name: | Vëshki |
Utc Offset1: | +3:00 |
Subdivision Name3: | Mytishchinsky District |
Subdivision Name1: | Moscow Oblast |
Subdivision Name: | Russia |
Postal Code: | 141031 |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Population As Of: | Census 2010[1] |
Vyoshki or Vëshki (Russian: Вёшки, IPA: [ˈvʲɵʂkʲɪ]) is a rural locality (a (posyolok) under the administrative jurisdiction of the City of Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast, Russia. Population:
Вешка[2] is a colloquial diminutive of the word веха, which means «a milestone»; a pole, pointed on one side, a branch that serves to indicate the path, boundaries of land plots, the layout of something on the terrain. Вёшка is an outdated and dialectic version of spelling and pronunciation, entrenched in the toponym.
In the area, there are six cottage settlements, a residential complex, a dacha nonprofit partnership (DNP), a (PRO), a (NHP), a and a cemetery. The passes through the area and the flows through it. The area is surrounded by forest on all sides.
In the area, there are two Eastern Orthodox churches — St. Varus' Church[3] at the exit from the highway to the Moscow Ring Road, on the territory of which the ecological park «On the unknown Mytishchi paths» is located, and the Church of Elijah the Prophet at the entrance to one of the neighboring NHPs in the northeast (both belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate), as well as the Stele in memory of the fallen soldiers, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.