Belomorsk

city Belomorsk Беломорск ( Russian ) Šuomua ( Karelian ) coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Belomorsk mayor Igor Leonidowitsch Savelyev First mention 12th Century City since 1938 surface 13  km² population 11,217 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 863 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81437 Post Code 186500 License Plate 10 OKATO 86 204 501 Website belomorsk.onego.ru Geographical location Coordinates 64 ° 32 '  N , 34 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 64 ° 32 '0 "  N , 34 ° 46' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

List of cities in Russia

Belomorsk ( Russian Беломорск , Karelian Šuomua ) is a city in the Republic of Karelia ( Russia ) with 11,217 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Shore area of ​​the White Sea in Belomorsk

The city is located about 375 kilometers north of the republic capital Petrozavodsk , partly on three larger and several smaller islands at the mouth of the Vyg and its tributary Schizhnja into the White Sea . The Wyg has been expanded to form the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal , the northern end of which is on the southern edge of the city.

Belomorsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

General

A village called Soroki at the mouth of the Wyg into the White Sea was mentioned in documents as early as the 12th century. The name corresponds to the Russified Karelian name of one of the estuary arms of the river, Soarijoki .

At the beginning of the 20th century, two sawmills with an associated workers' settlement were built nearby.

In 1938 the old village of Soroki, the sawmill settlement of Solunina , the settlement at the train station of the Murman Railway in Sorokskaya and a canal workers' settlement created during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal were combined to form the town of Belomorsk. The name is derived from the Russian Бе́лое мо́ре / Beloje more for White Sea . From 1941 to 1945, during the occupation of Petrozavodsk by Finnish troops in World War II , Belomorsk was the capital of the Karelo-Finnish SSR .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	12,238
1959	14,783
1970	16,595
1979	18,071
1989	18,935
2002	13,103
2010	11,217

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local museum, the exhibition of which is u. a. occupied with the Belomorsk petroglyphs and the history of the pomors .

The rock carvings depicting around 470 people, animals and hunting scenes at the Scheirukscha waterfall on the lower reaches of the Wyg date from the 3rd to 1st millennium BC. An exhibition pavilion was built for the rock carvings as a branch of the Belomorsk Local History Museum.

economy

Belomorsk's economy is determined by the wood and fish processing industries. There is a paper mill and a sawmill; the port is the base of the Karelian fishing fleet ( Karelrybflot ).

traffic

Belomorsk train station

The main train station is located on the 1917 opened Murmansk , a day for October Railway of RŽD belonging railroad from St. Petersburg to Murmansk (kilometer 780).

Belomorsk has a sea port.

Web links

Commons : Belomorsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• Official website of the Rajonsverwaltung (Russian)
• Belomorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Website about the city (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)