Suojarwi
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Suojarwi ( Russian Суоярви , Karelian and Finnish Suojärvi ) is a city in the Republic of Karelia ( Russia ) with 9,766 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 140 kilometers northwest of the republic capital Petrozavodsk on the lake of the same name Suojarwi .
Suojarwi is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
The city is located on the railway line Saint Petersburg - Lachdenpochja - Suojarwi - Petrozavodsk (route km 403), from which the line to Yushkosero or Kostomuksha branches off here.
history
In the 16th to 17th centuries, a settlement called Schujeserski pogost ( Schujeserski-Kirchhof , Russified form of the Karelian name, which means swamp lake ) was known to replace today's town . Suojarwi was first mentioned in 1589 as a chapel parish of the Orthodox community of Sortawala . In 1630 Suojarwi became an independent municipality.
In the course of its history, the rulership of Suojarwi changed several times: While Suojarwi was initially under the influence of the Novgorod Republic , in 1617 in the Peace of Stolbowo it came to Sweden together with the entire area north of Lake Ladoga and became part of Kexholm County . A century later, Sweden had to cede the area back to Russia in the Peace of Nystad in 1721. After the area of today's Finland came under Russian rule in 1809, Suojarwi was annexed to the newly established autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland as part of the so-called Old Finland in 1812 . Therefore, with the Finnish declaration of independence in 1917 , the place also became part of the Republic of Finland and came to the province of Viipuri .
During the Finnish period, the municipality of Suojärvi included, in addition to the main town, an extensive area of 3,474.3 km², in which almost 16,000 people lived before the Second World War . The Suojärvi community also included the places Naistenjarwi , Suojoki , Pijtsjoki , Wegarus and Weschkeliza . The population of Suojarwi consisted mostly of Orthodox Karelians .
As a result of the Winter War , the town and most of Western Karelia came into the possession of the Soviet Union in 1940 . During the Second World War , Suojarwi was reoccupied by Finnish troops on August 21, 1941 and recaptured on July 13, 1944 by troops of the Karelian Front of the Red Army as part of the Swir-Petrozavodsk operation .
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 6.711 |
| 1970 | 9,425 |
| 1979 | 10,507 |
| 1989 | 11,772 |
| 2002 | 11,600 |
| 2010 | 9,766 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
The historical wooden buildings have been preserved in several villages in the area ( Kaschalamba , Pawschoila ), and in the village of Weschkelitsa a chapel from the 17th to 18th centuries.
economy
Suojarwi's economy is dominated by the wood and wood processing industries. The Kartontara factory produces packaging. In addition, the food industry.
Personalities
- Alexander Karpin (1883–1969), Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Finland
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
Web links
- Suojarwi Raion on the Government of the Republic of Karelia website (Russian)
- City unofficial website (Russian)
- Suojarwi on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
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