Pinduschi

Urban-type settlement Pinduschi Пиндуши ( Russian ) Pinduši ( Karelian ) Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Medvezhyegorsky head Alexander Zarya Founded 1933 Urban-type settlement since 1950 population 4598 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 75  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81434 Post Code 186323 License Plate 10 OKATO 86 224 555 Website pindushskoe.ru Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 55 '  N , 34 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 55 '0 "  N , 34 ° 34' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

Pinduschi ( Russian Пи́ндуши ; Karelian Pinduši ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Karelia in Russia with 4598 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 125 km as the crow flies north of the republic capital Petrozavodsk on the Lumbusha Bay - named after the Lumbuschka river that flows there - at the northern end of Lake Onega .

Pindushi belongs to the Medweschjegorsky Rajon and is located six kilometers east of its administrative center Medweschjegorsk . It is the seat of the municipality of Pinduschskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the two villages Lumbuschi (2.5 km west) and Salmaguba (3 km south) as well as the six settlements Lumbuschosero, Masselgskaja, Malyga, Vansosero, Velikaja Guba and Witschka. The latter are up to 36 km to the northwest, with the exception of Velikaya Guba along the Murman Railway at the stations of the same name.

history

The place was founded in 1933 in connection with the construction of a shipyard as part of the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal , which leaves Lake Onega about 15 km southeast of Powenez .

During the Finnish-Soviet war , the place was captured by the Finnish army on December 6, 1941, during their advance on Powenez, where the front on the White Sea-Baltic Canal came to a standstill until June 1944 . The Finnish name of the place during the occupation period, which lasted until June 21, 1944, was Pinduinen.

In 1950 Pinduschi received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4853
1970	3908
1979	5644
1989	6611
2002	5190
2010	4598

Note: census data

traffic

The station of the same name in the Witschka part of the municipality is located near Pinduschi at km 565 of the Murman Railway from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk . Today the station only serves goods traffic; the nearest railway station with passenger traffic is Medvezhja Gora in Medvezhyegorsk.

The federal highway A119 , which starts at the R21 Kola near Medweschjegorsk, runs east around Lake Onega via Pudosch and Wytegra and reaches the M8 Cholmogory near Vologda, runs through the settlement .

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)