Sortavala

city Sortawala Сортавала ( Russian ) Sortavala ( Finnish ) coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia republic Karelia Rajon Sortavala mayor Nikolai Sajaz First mention 1468 City since 1632 surface 15  km² population 19,235 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1282 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 5  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81430 Post Code 18679x License Plate 10 OKATO 86 410 Website sortavala-mr.telesort.ru Geographical location Coordinates 61 ° 42 ′  N , 30 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 42 ′ 0 "  N , 30 ° 40 ′ 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Republic of Karelia

List of cities in Russia

Sortavala (until 1918 Serdobol ; Russian Сортавала, Сердоболь , Finnish Sortavala , Swedish Sordavala ) is a city in the Republic of Karelia in Russia . It is located on the north shore of Lake Ladoga and has 19,235 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The city of Sortavala was founded as Serdobol in the area of ​​the Votskaja Pyatina (Russian: вотская пятнина, German: Wattlande) of the Novgorod Republic . The original name of the city of Serdobol comes from the northern Russian word serdobol'nik (Russian: сердобольник), which means wine rose in German. The city was first mentioned in Swedish documents around 1468. This city played an important role in the medieval Swedish-Novgorodian Wars. Serdobol received its town charter as Sordavala in Kexholms län in 1632 from the Kingdom of Sweden . Since 1721 after the end of the Great Northern War , the city as Serdobol belonged again to Russia . From the beginning of the 19th century until 1917 the city belonged as Serdobol to the Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire and from 1918 as Sortavala to independent Finland , before it was again ceded to Russia after the Second World War .

The Serdobol granite , which was quarried in the area north of Lake Ladoga, was famous during the times of the Russian Empire , for example the atlases of the portico of the New Hermitage in Saint Petersburg were made from it.

Sortawala has a landing stage on Lake Ladoga, from which ships take tourists and pilgrims to Valaam Island.

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  Lake Ladoga near Sortowala

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  Wooden houses in Sortavala

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,600
1939	4,710
1959	17,611
1970	22,188
1979	21,618
1989	22,579
2002	21,131
2010	19,235

Note: census data

sons and daughters of the town

• Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), Russian painter, writer, archaeologist
• Väinö Raitio (1891–1945), Finnish composer
• Yrjö Kokko (1903–1977), Finnish writer
• Olli Hakka (1916–1989), Finnish fighter pilot in World War II
• Arvo Oksala (1920–1993), Finnish ophthalmologist
• Eila Kivikk'aho (1921–2004), Finnish poet and translator
• Eila Hiltunen (1922–2003), Finnish sculptor
• Tauno Rinkinen (1924–1993), Finnish boxer
• Toivo Jaatinen (1926-2017), Finnish sculptor
• Tuomo Tuormaa (1926-2010), Finnish canoeist
• Simo Kuismanen (1932–2015), Finnish canoeist
• Oili Tanninen (* 1933), Finnish illustrator
• Heino Pulli (1938–2015), Finnish ice hockey player
• Valentin Chekmassow (* 1940), Russian artist
• Pyotr Kovalenko (1942-1993), Russian ski jumper
• Seppo Reijonen (* 1944), Finnish-Swedish ski jumper and ski jumping trainer
• Alexander Belyakov (* 1945), Russian politician
• Anatoly Panfilow (* 1951), Russian politician
• Yuri Ivanov (* 1952), Russian ski jumper
• Juri Kalinin (* 1953), Russian ski jumper
• Valery Kopayev (1954–1979), Russian Nordic combined skier
• Sergei Chlebnikow (1955–1999), Russian speed skater
• Nikolai Aksjonow (* 1970), Russian rower
• Wladislaw Ryabzew (* 1987), Russian rower

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. ↑ Tauno Rinkinen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
3. ↑ Tuomo Tuormaa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
4. ↑ Simo Kuismanen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
5. ↑ Heino Pulli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
6. ↑ Valery Kopayev in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Web links

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

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Rajon Administration website (Russian)
• Sortavala on mojgorod.ru (Russian)