Verkhnyaya Vereya
55°13′43″N 42°06′24″E / 55.22861°N 42.10667°E
Verkhnyaya Vereya (Russian: Ве́рхняя Вере́я) is a rural locality (a selo) under the administrative jurisdiction of the work settlement of Vilya in jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Vyksa in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
The village largely burned down on July 29, 2010 due to the wildfires which broke out across European Russia. All 341 houses were destroyed; 580 people were evacuated to nearby Vyksa.
References
- ^ Государственно-правовой департамент Нижегородской области. Приказ №3-од от 27 января 2016 г. «Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных образований, городских и сельских населённых пунктов Нижегородской области». Опубликован: "Нижегородская правда", №27(26048) (начало) и №30 (26051) (окончание), 19 и 26 марта 2016 г. (State Legal Department of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Order #3-od of January 27, 2016 On the Adoption of the Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Formations, Urban and Rural Localities of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. ).
- ^ Vesti.ru. Лесной пожар уничтожил деревню Верхняя Верея (in Russian)
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