Vetluzhsky (russian: Ветлужский) is an
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) in
Kostroma Oblast
Kostroma Oblast (russian: Костромска́я о́бласть, ''Kostromskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kostroma and its population as of the 2021 Census is 580,97 ...
,
Russia
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. Population:
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Vetluzhsky, as an administrative division, together with the town of
Sharya
Sharya (russian: Шарья́) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vetluga River northeast of Kostroma, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 26,000 (1974).
History
It was founded in 1906 and ...
and three
rural localities, incorporated separately as the
town of oblast significance of Sharya—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the
districts
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.
[Law #112-4-ZKO] As a
municipal division, Vetluzhsky, as part of the town of oblast significance of Sharya, is incorporated as Sharya Urban Okrug.
[Law #237-ZKO]
References
Urban-type settlements in Kostroma Oblast
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