Yushkinskaya Volost is a

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in Gdov Municipal District of

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in northern

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inhabited by

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, and Romas. The volost covers and includes 32 villages, one of which is uninhabited. The administrative center is the village of Yushkino, which is, however, only the third largest by population after Trutnevo and Vetvenik. Although remote and hardly accessible, this area attracts some tourists and dachniks (owners of seasonal second homes, usually

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s or small

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s) due to its untouched nature, ecology, traditional way of life and some objects of cultural and historical heritage of local significance. Many of its villages are not connected to

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by regular public transport. The quality of rural roads is very poor and in winter and rainy seasons it is hard to reach some remote settlements by an ordinary car. Only five of the 32 villages have permanent convenience stores, other are served by so-called ''avtolavkas'' (

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: автола́вка), trucks with essential goods which arrive from

once in a week or two and stay for around thirty minutes in each settlement. There are two

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s in Yushkinskaya Volost, one in Vetvenik and one in Trutnevo. Vetvenik school only offers primary education which covers grades from 1 to 4, while Trutnevo school has all grades of secondary education up to 11.Schools of Russia: Catalogue
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in the area is located in Trutnevo.

Population

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Constituent communities

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Pskov Oblast