Veshchevo
Veshchevo | |||||||||||
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Veshchevo railway station | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Russian Navy | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 154 ft / 47 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 60°40′24″N 029°10′0″E / 60.67333°N 29.16667°E | ||||||||||
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Veshchevo (Russian: Вещево; Finnish: Heinjoki) is a rural locality on Karelian Isthmus, in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, and a station of the Vyborg–Zhitkovo railroad. The railway track between Veshchevo and Zhitkovo was, however, dismantled in 2001.
Until the Winter War and the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, it had been the administrative center of the Heinjoki municipality of the Viipuri province of Finland. Established in 1869, the Heinjoki municipality was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944.