Valaam
Valaam ( Russian Валаам , Finnish Valamo ) is the name of a group of islands in the northeastern part of Lake Ladoga in Karelia , Russian Federation, and the name of the main island of the archipelago .
geography
Valaam belongs to the Republic of Karelia and consists of over 50 partly inhabited islands with an area of 36 km². The main island of Valaam covers about two thirds of the area with 27.8 km². The Valaam Orthodox Monastery is located on it .
history
Valaam belonged to the Principality of Novgorod in the 12th century and to the Novgorod Republic in the late Middle Ages , which in 1478, in the reign of Ivan III. , came under the rule of Moscow . In the 17th century Valaam came to the Kingdom of Sweden . From 1809 Valaam belonged to the Grand Duchy of Finland and from 1917 to the independent state of Finland . As a result of the Winter War , Valaam came to the Soviet Union as part of Karelia . Then Stalin had one of the Gulag camps set up on Valaam . Since the collapse of the Soviet Union , Valaam has belonged to the Republic of Karelia of the Russian Federation.
literature
- Josef Sieber: From Lake Ladoga , report of a study trip in 1899 to Valaam monastery (in the report in the spelling “Valamo”). In: Annual report of the KK Staats-Ober-Gymnasium zu Leitmeritz in Böhmen for the school year 1899/1900 , Verlag des kk Staatsgymnasium, Leitmeritz 1900, pp. 3–26.
Footnotes
- ↑ Anna Kaminsky (eds.), Ruth Gleinig and Ronny Heidenreich (arr.): Places of remembrance of the mass terror 1937/38 . Foundation to come to terms with the SED dictatorship, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022887-2 , p. 54.
Web links
- Balaam, the largest of the Valaam Islands on megabook.ru (Russian)
Coordinates: 61 ° 22 ′ N , 30 ° 58 ′ E