Segescha

city Segescha Сегежа ( Russian ) Segeža ( Karelian ) flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Segescha mayor Sergei Dolgachev Founded 1914 City since 1943 surface 19  km² population 29,631 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1560 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81431 Post Code 186420-186424 License Plate 10 OKATO 86 245 501 Website http://segezha.onego.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 63 ° 45 ′  N , 34 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 63 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 34 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

List of cities in Russia

Segescha ( Russian Сегежа , Karelian Segeža ) is a city in the Republic of Karelia ( Russia ) with 29,631 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 270 km north of the republic capital Petrozavodsk at the mouth of the Segescha river of the same name in Lake Vygosero , through which the Vyg flows into the White Sea . Segescha owns a port on Wygosero, through which the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal also runs and for the construction of which the lake was additionally dammed.

Segescha is the administrative center of the Rajons 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 (kilometer 671).

The M18 St. Petersburg – Severomorsk highway runs ten kilometers west of the city .

history

A settlement on the site of today's city has been known since the 16th century. The place itself was created when construction began on the Murman Railway in 1914, named after the river.

In the 1930s, after the White Sea-Baltic Canal was completed, a paper mill was built. In 1943 city rights were granted.

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 212 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

The Russian prison camp of the same name is located in the vicinity of the city. A prominent prisoner was the entrepreneur and government critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky until his early release in December 2013 .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	19,708
1970	28,810
1979	36,420
1989	38.207
2002	34,214
2010	29,631

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Segescha has a small local museum.

economy

The city-building company is the Segescha cellulose and paper combine . There is also wood processing and construction.

Web links

• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Rajon Administration website (Russian)
• Segescha 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)
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.