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.[1]
The village largely burned down on July 29, 2010 due to the wildfires which broke out across European Russia.[2] All 341 houses were destroyed; 580 people were evacuated to nearby Vyksa.[2]
References
edit- ^ 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. ).
- ^ a b Vesti.ru. Лесной пожар уничтожил деревню Верхняя Верея (in Russian)
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