Vereshchagino

It was founded in 1898 during the construction of the Perm-Vyatka railway as a settlement at the Ocherskaya station (opened in 1899), named after the Ocher River.

In 1904 the station was renamed Voznesenskaya, in 1915 in Vereshchagino in honor of the Russian battle painter V.V. Vereshchagin (1842-1904), who in 1904 on the way to the Far East stopped at this station. The city since 1942.

Bread and dairy plants, the enterprise "Vereshchaginsky knitwear". Plants: for repair of track machines and production of spare parts, reinforced concrete structures.

In Vereshchaginsky district grow wheat, oats, fodder crops, potatoes, vegetables. Livestock (milk and meat direction), poultry.

Peat, oil, limestone, marl.