Lachdenpochja

city Lachdenpochja Лахденпохья ( Russian ) Lahdenpohja ( Finnish ) coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Lachdenpochja mayor Yuri Filimonov First mention 1600 City since 1945 surface 9  km² population 7813 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 868 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81450 Post Code 186730, 186731 License Plate 10 OKATO 86 218 501 Website http://lahdenpohja.onego.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 61 ° 31 '  N , 30 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 61 ° 31 '0 "  N , 30 ° 12' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

List of cities in Russia

Lachdenpochja ( Russian Лахденпохья , Finnish Lahdenpohja ; until 1918 - Jakimwara station , Russian Якимварская станция ) is a small town in the Russian republic of Karelia with 7813 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the northwest bank of Lake Ladoga , about 330 kilometers west of the republic capital Petrozavodsk , at the mouth of the river Aurajoki in the Jakimwarski Bay of the lake.

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

The city lies on the railway line Saint Petersburg -Lachdenpochja- Suoyarvi - Petrozavodsk (kilometer 218; station Jakkima three kilometers west Lakhdenpokhya; freight siding in the city).

history

Wooden chapel in Lachdenpochja

The area of ​​Lachdenpochja originally belonged to the Jakkima municipality ( Jaakkima in Finnish ). In 1882 a settlement called Lahdenpohja was founded at the end of Sieklahti Bay , which in Finnish means about the rear end of the bay . When Finland gained independence in 1918, the place became part of its Viipuri province . In 1924 Lahdenpohja was separated from Jaakkima as an independent minority town (Finnish kauppala ).

As a result of the Winter War , the town and most of Western Karelia came into the possession of the Soviet Union in 1940 , which incorporated the town into the Karelo-Finnish SSR (from 1956 ASSR ). During the Second World War , Lachdenpochja was reoccupied by Finnish troops immediately after the start of the war and was recaptured by Red Army troops in 1944 .

In 1945 the Soviet town charter was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1,959
1959	7,787
1970	7,944
1979	9,541
1989	10,429
2002	8,751
2010	7,813

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a local museum in the village of Kurkijeki . On the shore of Lake Ladoga, the park stretches Ladoga archipelago ( Ladoschskije schchery ).

economy

The most important companies in the city are a sawmill and other companies in the timber industry.

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)

Web links

Commons : Lachdenpochja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City website (Russian)
• Lachdenpochja on mojgorod.ru (Russian)