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Vyoshenskaya, colloquially known as Vyoshki is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Sholokhovsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located in the northern reaches of the Don River on its left bank.
It was first mentioned in 1672.
During the Russian Civil War in 1919, the Upper-Don Anti-Bolshevists operated from Vyoshenskaya. The Vyoshenskaya uprising and its leader, Pavel Kudinov, are described in Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don. The rebels had withdrawn from the White Army and joined the Bolsheviks, but rose up in arms because of the Red Terror. They felt betrayed by the Bolsheviks who had promised that the Upper Don would be spared any military action or decossackization. The counter-revolutionaries then united with the Don Army.
The uprising failed as the southern front collapsed. Sholokhov also
described the conditions during those years in his collection of short
stories Tales of the Don.
Due to the efforts of Sholokhov, a paved road was laid in 1963 between Vyoshenskaya and Millerovo.
In 1985, a bridge was built connecting Vyoshenskaya with the stanitsa of Bazkovskaya, on the opposite bank.
After
Sholokhov's death in 1984, a museum honoring the writer was created. The
town has erected many monuments to Sholokhov and the characters from
his novel And Quiet Flows the Don.
Vyoshenskaya is the birthplace of the Soviet/Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov and the Cossack historian and Crimean War general Nikolay Krasnov.