Pjaosersky

Urban-type settlement Pjaoserski Пяозерский ( Russian ) Pääjärvi ( Karelian ) flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Louchski head Sergei Kusin Founded 1973 Urban-type settlement since 1976 population 2098 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81439 Post Code 186667 License Plate 10 OKATO 86 221 562 Website pyaozero-admin.ru Geographical location Coordinates 65 ° 46 ′  N , 31 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 65 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

Pjaoserski ( Russian Пяозе́рский ; Karelian Pääjärvi ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Karelia in Russia with 2098 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 470 km as the crow flies north-northwest of the republic capital Petrozavodsk on Lake Tuchka. Its outflow Tuchkapaduk flows a little north into the Pontscha, and this about 7 km northeast into the eponymous lake Pjaosero in the river system of the Kowda .

Pjaoserski belongs to Rajon Louchski and is located about 100 kilometers north of the administrative center Loukhi . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality Pyozerskoye gorodskoje posselenije.

The visitor center of the Paanajarwi National Park, founded in 1992 and a good 50 km to the northwest, is located in Pjaoserski .

history

The place was founded as a settlement at a large forestry enterprise on September 18, 1973 and received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1976. Large parts of the original settlement were built  by Finnish companies - a peculiarity for the former Soviet Union .

Population development

year	Residents
1979	2660
1989	2632
2002	2603
2010	2098

Note: census data

traffic

On the eastern edge of Pjaoserski is the Pjaosero railway station , the end point of a 101-kilometer branch line that branches off the Murman Railway Saint Petersburg  - Murmansk in Louchi . The route ended in Kestenga since 1938 and was extended by almost 40 km to Pjaosero in 1961. After passenger traffic was stopped in the 1980s, it has been de facto out of operation since the closure of the forestry operation in Pjaoserski in 2017, but has not yet been shut down (as of 2019).

The regional road 86K-127 runs through the settlement, which also branches off the federal trunk road R21 Kola St. Petersburg - Murmansk at Louchi and continues to Suoperja, a border crossing to Finland , a good 40 km west of Pjaoserski ; there continue as regional road (Seututie) 866 towards Kuusamo . About 10 km east of Pjaoserski at Tungosero the 86K-127 branches off from the 86K-127 to Kalewala .

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)