Medvezhyegorsk

city Medweschjegorsk Медвежьегорск ( Russian ) Karhumägi ( Karelian ) Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Medvezhyegorsk mayor Nikolai Tuchkin Founded 1916 City since 1938 surface 14  km² population 15,533 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1110 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81434 Post Code 186350, 186352 License Plate 10 OKATO 86 224 501 Website http://www.medgora.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 54 '  N , 34 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 54 '0 "  N , 34 ° 27' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

List of cities in Russia

Medweschjegorsk ( Russian Медвежьегорск , Karelian Karhumägi , Finnish Karhumäki ) is a city in the Republic of Karelia ( Russia ) with 15,533 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 150 km north of the republic capital Petrozavodsk at the northern end of Lake Onega (Powenez Bay).

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

The town lies on the 1917 opened Murmansk , a day for October Railway of RZD belonging railway from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk (Station Medweschja Gora , kilometer 556). The M18 St. Petersburg – Severomorsk highway also runs through Medvezhegorsk .

About 20 kilometers east of the city, near the Powenez settlement , the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal reaches Lake Onega.

history

A Karelian village on the site of the present city has been known since the 16th century.

In 1916, in connection with the construction of the Murman Railway, a station settlement was established, the Russian name of which is Medweschja Gora (German Bärenberg ), a translation of the old Karelian place name.

In 1938 the place was given city rights under its current name, not least as the administrative center (1931–1941) of the White Sea-Baltic camp in the Gulag prisoner camp system .

During the Second World War , Medvezhegorsk was occupied by Finnish troops on December 6, 1941 and recaptured on June 23, 1944 by troops of the Karelian Front of the Red Army as part of the Swir-Petrozavodsk operation .

Population development

Medvezhja Gora railway station

year	Residents
1939	12,108
1959	15,824
1970	17,465
1979	20,300
1989	20,373
2002	17,283
2010	15,533

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a city history museum in Medvezhjegorsk.

The island of Kizhi in Lake Onega is located in the area of ​​Medweschjegorsk Rajon , and its wooden church ensemble is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

economy

The city is the center of the timber industry and the wood processing industry; also construction , textile and food industries .

Medvezhjegorsk is also a health resort ( healing springs Tsaritsyn Klyuch and Tri Iwana as well as a climatic health resort ).

Web links

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

• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Medweschjegorsk on mojgorod.ru (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)