Vetluga (russian: Ветлу́га) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares ...

and the

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Vetluzhsky District Vetluzhsky District (russian: Ветлу́жский райо́н) is an administrative district ( raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.Order #3-od Municipally, it is incorporated as Vetluzhsky Municipal District.Resolutio ...

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,31 ...

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, located on the right bank of the

Vetluga River Vetluga (, , ''Vütla'') is a river in the Kirov Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Mari El Republic The Mari El Republic (russian: Респу́блика Мари́й Эл, ''Respublika Mariy El''; Meadow Mari: ; Hill Mari: ) is a republic of Russi ...

. Population:

History

It was founded in 1636 and granted town status in 1778.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Vetluga serves as the

.Order #3-od As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Vetluzhsky District as the

town of district significance Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...

of Vetluga. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Vetluga is incorporated within Vetluzhsky Municipal District as Vetluga Urban Settlement.Law #109-Z

Notable residents

* Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881), novelist and dramatist, lived his first ten years at Vetluga *

Vasily Rozanov Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov (russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Рóзанов; – 5 February 1919) was one of the most controversial Russian writers and important philosophers in the symbolists' of the pre- revolutionary epoc ...

(1856–1919), writer and philosopher, born in Vetluga * Viktor Rozov (1913–2004), dramatist and screenwriter, received primary education at Vetluga from 1918

Climate

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=December 2012 Cities and towns in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Vetluzhsky Uyezd