Vyoshenskaya[4] (Russian: Вёшенская, IPA: [ˈvʲɵʂɨnskəjə]), colloquially known as Vyoshki (Russian: Вёшки),[citation needed] 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.

However, a settlement called Veesky in the very same place is marked on a map of Southern Russia from Isaac Massa's book printed in 1638.

The rebels had withdrawn from the White Army and joined the Bolsheviks, but rose in arms because of the Red Terror.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.

Vyoshenskaya is the birthplace of the Soviet/Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov and the Cossack historian and Crimean War general Nikolay Krasnov.