Veesky

Vyoshki was a Cossack town on the upper Don, in the country later known as Vyoshenskaya. Its men joined the Cossack capture of Azov in 1637 and the defence of the fortress during the Ottoman siege of 1641. They also took part in the rebellions led by Stenka Razin in 1670 and Kondraty Bulavin in 1707–1708. In 1740 repeated floods prompted the town to move from the low floodplain to a higher terrace, where it joined the stanitsa of Reshetovskaya.