Louchi

Urban-type settlement Louchi Лоухи ( Russian ) Louhi ( Karelian ) flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Louchski head Sergei Lebedev Founded 1913 Urban-type settlement since 1944 population 4772 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 95  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81439 Post Code 186660 License Plate 10 OKATO 86 221 551 Website louhigor.ru Geographical location Coordinates 66 ° 5 '  N , 33 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 66 ° 4 '30 "  N , 33 ° 3' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

Louchi ( Russian Ло́ухи , Karelian Louhi ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Karelia in Russia with 4772 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 480 km as the crow flies north of the republic capital Petrozavodsk, a little south of the Arctic Circle . It is located between several lakes that - partly via the Keret River - drain to the White Sea , which is just under 50 km away .

Loukhi is the administrative center of the Rajons Louchski and seat and only town of the municipality Louchskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

The place was created in 1913 in connection with the construction of the Murman Railway from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk , when a train station was built there. The name refers to Louhi , a figure in Finnish mythology who appears in the epic Kalevala , among others .

On August 29, 1927 Louchi became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1944 it received urban-type settlement status.

The place became internationally known when on April 20, 1978 a blown Korean Air Lines aircraft on Flight 902 was shot at and damaged by Soviet interceptors for breaching the airspace and made an emergency landing on a frozen lake 3 km south of the town.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2076
1959	6107
1970	5376
1979	5548
1989	6405
2002	5920
2010	4772

Note: census data

traffic

Louchi has a train station at kilometer 1002 on the Saint Petersburg – Murmansk railway line, which opened in 1916. It was electrified from the south to Louchi in 1988 and further north in the 1990s . In a westerly direction, an approximately 102 km long branch line branches off to Pjaoserski ( Pjaosero station ), which is only operated in freight traffic.

The federal trunk road R21 Kola Saint Petersburg - Murmansk passes seven kilometers west of the settlement . This is where the regional road 86K-127 begins, which follows the railway line to Pjaoserski and on to the Finnish border; there continue towards Kuusamo .

A military airfield built from 1941 a good ten kilometers west of Louchi was abandoned in the 1990s.

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (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)
2. ↑ Н. П. Лагутина, Т. Ю. Набокова, Т. П. Филатова: Атлас Железные Дороги. Omsk 2010, p. 7.