Vetlyanka

Vetlyanka Ветлянка
Selo
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Coordinates: 47°38′N 46°37′E[1]
Country	Russia
Region	Astrakhan Oblast
District	Yenotayevsky District
Time zone	UTC+4:00

Vetlyanka (Russian: Ветлянка) is a rural locality (a selo) in Vetlyansky Selsoviet of Yenotayevsky District, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. The population was 609 as of 2010.^[2] There are 17 streets. It came to international attention as the site of the beginning of the plague epidemic in the Astrakhan region in November of 1878, which lasted through the following year.^[3][4]

Geography

Vetlyanka is located 58 km northwest of Yenotayevka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Prishib is the nearest rural locality.^[5]

References

1. Карта села Ветлянка в Астраханской области
2. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. 1. Численность и размещение населения Астраханской области
3. [J. Netten Radcliffe. 1881 Memorandum on the Progress of Levantine Plague in 1878–79, Including the Reappearance of the Disease in Europe. Ninth Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1878–80. https://archive.org/details/b20419703/]
4. [Bramanti Barbara, Dean Katharine R., Walløe Lars and Chr. Stenseth Nils. 2019 The Third Plague Pandemic in Europe. Proc. R. Soc. B. 286: 28620182429. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2429]
5. Расстояние от Ветлянки до Енотаевки