Lessogorsky

Urban-type settlement Lessogorsky Лесогорский coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Vyborg First mention 1323 Earlier names Jaeski Urban-type settlement since 1940 population 3273 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 3 Post Code 188961 License Plate 47 OKATO 41 215 554 Geographical location Coordinates 61 ° 2 '  N , 28 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 61 ° 1 '59 "  N , 28 ° 55' 59"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

Lessogorski ( Russian Лесогорский ; until 1948 Finnish Jääski ) is an urban-type settlement with 3273 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in northwestern Russia . It is located on the Wuoksa River (Vuoksi) southwest of the industrial city of Swetogorsk near the border with Finland in the Vyborg Rajon of Leningrad Oblast, approx. 185 km northwest of Saint Petersburg . The railway line from Kamennogorsk to Imatra in Finland runs through Lessogorski.

Lessogorski (Jääski) around 1900

Before the Second World War , Lessogorski was called Jääski and belonged to Finland. In addition to the eponymous Kirchdorf of Jääski belonged to the district municipality Jääski also svetogorsk (then Enso ) and the villages Lossewo ( Järvenkylä ) and Vozrozhdeniye ( Kavantsaari ). When the border was drawn in 1940 after the Winter War and again in 1944 after the continuation of the war , 85% of the municipal area of ​​Jääski, including the church village and the important industrial site Enso, came to the Soviet Union . The areas remaining on the Finnish side were divided up in 1948 between Joutseno , Ruokolahti and the newly founded market town of Imatra. In the same year Jääski was renamed Lessogorski.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	5330
1970	4938
1979	4798
1989	3744
2002	3004
2010	3273

Note: census data

See also

• List of cities in Leningrad Oblast

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)
2. ^ Article Lessogorsky in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D069856~2a%3D~2b%3DLessogorski