Veshenskaya

Veshenskaya, or Vyoshenskaya (Вёшенская), colloquially known as Vyoshki, is a Cossack stanitsa (town) in the northern, or upper, Don region, on the left bank of the Don. It is the administrative centre of the Sholokhovsky district. It is well known as the birthplace of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, and the Cossack historian Nikolay Krasnov.