Vetluga
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Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Vetluga (Template:Langx) is a town and the administrative center of Vetluzhsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Vetluga River, after which the town is named. Population: Template:Ru-census
History
It was founded in 1636 and granted town status in 1778.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Vetluga serves as the administrative center of Vetluzhsky District.[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Vetluzhsky District as the town of district significance of Vetluga.[1] As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Vetluga is incorporated within Vetluzhsky Municipal District as Vetluga Urban Settlement.[2]
Notable people
- Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881), novelist and dramatist, lived his first ten years in Vetluga
- Vasily Rozanov (1856–1919), writer and philosopher, born in Vetluga
- Viktor Rozov (1913–2004), dramatist and screenwriter, received primary education at Vetluga from 1918