Sortavala

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city
Sortawala
Сортавала ( Russian )
Sortavala ( Finnish )
coat of arms
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 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
Sortavala (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Sortavala (Republic of Karelia)
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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.

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

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 )

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