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Karelian Republic


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Burial grounds of the Karelian people.
Burial grounds of the Karelians ( chronicle Korela, ancestors of the modern Korelians/Karyala) are concentrated in the north-western Ladoga Lake region (Priozersk district, joining districts of Karelia). There are known funeral monuments of the... more


Eparhy of Olonets and Kargopol
The Eparchy of Olonets and Kargopol. Othodox monasteries and churches of the Olonets region (the territories of present-day Korelia, partly of the Vologda and Leningrad Regions) were originally included into the Eparchy of Novgorod. The foundation... more


Ethnic deportations
Ethnic deportations are forced resettlement carried out according to an ethnic signs. In 1935-36 in the Leningrad Oblast there were some activities on purging the zone of land with 22 kilometres wide at the border with Finland "from kulak and... more


Finland
FINLAND, country in Northern Europe. Borders Sweden, Norway, the RF (Murmansk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast.) Located on the coasts of the Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea. Area: 338,000 sq. km (abt. 10% being inland... more


Finns
Finns (old use - Chukhnas, their native name is Suomalaiset) is an ethnic community which is a part of the population of the Leningrad Oblast. In the world there are more than 5 million Finns. They are the main population of Finland (4,6 million... more


Finns of Ingermanlandia
Finns of Ingermanlandia (Finns-Inkeri, Finns of Leningrad; old use - Chukhonets, Maimists; their own native names - Soumalaiset, Inkerin Suomolaiset) are an ethnic community. They speak local accents of the eastern dialects (the Baltic-Finnic... more


Folklore
FOLKLORE of folks living in the Leningrad Oblast (ref. Ethnic communities in Leningrad Oblast) is multilayer polyethnic heritage which appeared as a result of rich history of the region. One of the first people to study the Veps in the period of... more


Grogory (Chukov) (1870-1955), metropolitan, clergy figure
Grigory (Nikolay Kirillovich Chukov; 1870-1955), Metropolitan, clergy figure, Doctor of Theology. Nikolay Kirillovich Chukov was born in a peasant family. In 1889 he graduated from the Olonets Ecclesiastical Seminary, in 1895 he graduated from the... more


Konkka, Yuhani (1904-1970), a literary man
Konkka, Yuhani (1904, Konkkala located near Toksovo settlement -1970), a writer, tramslator. In 1915 Yuhani Konkka joined at the People's College in Impilakhti Town and then at the theological seminary in Sortavala. In 1919 Konkka's family mooved to... more


Kuznechnoye, urban settlement
KUZNECHNOYE, urban settlement in Priozersk District. Population: 5,200. Located in the north-east of the Karelian Isthmus, at the Lake Ladoga coast, near the borders of the Republic of Karelia and Finland. The name was given in 1948. From 1961, K.... more


Ladoga Lake
LAKE LADOGA. Located in Leningrad Oblast and the Republic of Karelia. In the Middle Ages, it was called Nevo (Baltic Finnish nevo = “moss marsh.”) The current name originates from the middle Scand. Aldoga (fm the Baltic Finnish Alodejogi = “the... more


Leningrad Oblast, the
LENINGRAD OBLAST, subject territory of RF. Area: 83,900 sq. Km (max. Extension from west to east: 446 km, north to south: 325 km.) Population (as of 2002): 1,669,000. The Oblast borders Pskov and Novgorod Oblasts in the south, Vologda Oblast in the... more


Linevsky, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1902-1985), a scientist
Linevsky, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (1902-1985), a writer, archaeologist and ethnographer. Linevsky was born in St. Petersburg, studied at the College of Jurisprudence (1912-1918) and at the Petrograd/Leningrad Iniversity (1923-1928). In 1929 he... more


Lodeynoye Pole District
LODEYNOYE POLE DISTRICT, a part of Leningrad Oblast located east of Lake Ladoga in the Svir River basin. In the north-west and north, it borders Olonets District of the Republic of Karelia; in the north-east and east, Podporozhye District; in the... more


Neolithic monuments, The
The Neolithic monuments. The Neolithic (New Stone Age, 8000 - 3000 BC) is the epoch of farming and cattling appearance, spinning and weaving, new techniques of processing of stones and ceramics. In the Eastern Europe forest zone the Neolithics is... more


Obonezhye
OBONEZHYE, historic and cultural region in the north-west of the European Russia. It included lands around Lake Onega. A part of the state of Novgorod: written sources from the 12th century mention the Obonezhskaya Hundred as an adm. and territorial... more


October Railroad, the
OCTOBER RAILROAD, Federal State Unitary Enterprise. Track length: over 10,000 km (in 2003, the operative length of the tracks was 10,143 km, and the total length, 13,168.8 km). Extends across SPb and Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, Tver, Moscow,... more


Onega Lake
LAKE ONEGA (Onezhskoye Ozero), located in the north of Russia’s European part within the Republic of Karelia, Vologda Oblast (southern and south-eastern part) and Leningrad Oblast (south-western part.) The L. O. boast belongs to the north-eastern... more


Podporozhye District
PODPOROZHYE DISTRICT, municipal entity. Population: 35,200. Area: 7705.5 sq. km. Located in the north-east of Leningrad Oblast. In the north-west and north, it borders Olonets, Pryazha, and Prionezhsky Districts of the Republic of Karelia; in the... more


Priozersk District
PRIOZERSK DISTRICT, municipal entity. Population: 63,300 (of these, 20,500 live in Priozersk town, the adm. center.) Area: 3,563.1 sq. km. Located in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Karelian Isthmus. It borders Vsevolozhsk and Vyborg... more


Ravdonikas, Vladislav Iosifovich (1894-1976), a scientist
Ravdonikas, Vladislav Iosifovich (1894, Tikhvin - 1976), an archaeologist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science of the USSR (1946). In the middle of the 1910s Ravdonikas has been keen on archaelogical dig of burial mounds of the Tikhvin... more


Shaskolsky, Igor Pavlovich (1918-1995), a scientist
Shaskolsky, Igor Pavlovich (1918-1995), a historian, Doctor of History from 1965. From 1936 till 1941 Shaskolsky attended the history faculty of the Leningrad State University. During the studies Shaskolsky's scientific interest sphere was... more


"The Tree of Life", a vepses festival
“DEREVO ZHIZNY” (“TREE OF LIFE”), Veps festival – a holiday of Veps culture. Veps name is “Elon Pu”. The festival was organized in 1987 in Vinnitsy Village, Podporozhye District, one of the centres of Veps culture, on the initiative of the... more


v. Sankt-Peterburg Gubernia, the
ST. PETERSBURG GUBERNIA, historic adm. and territorial unit of Russia. Established in 1708 by the decree of Peter I subdividing Russia into eight gubernias. It included the areas of the current Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, and Tver Oblasts, and... more


Veps
Veps (IN FORMER TIMES - Chud (Chudes), Chukhars, Kaivans; Veps' native names in the Leningrad Oblast are Vepsya/Bepsya/Veps, Vepslyayzhet/Vepslaazhed/Bepslaazhed, Lyudinikad, Chukharid) are an ethnic community. The Veps language is related to the... more


Voznesenye, urban settlement
VOZNESENYE, an urban settlement in Podporozhye District. Population: 2,800. It is situated at the head of the Svir River flowing out of Lake Onega. It is connected to Podporozhye town with a motor road and via the Svir. North-east of V., towards... more


White Sea-Baltic Sea Waterway, the
WHITE SEA-BALTIC SEA WATERWAY, a canal system connecting the White Sea and the Baltic Sea. It includes the White Sea-Baltic Canal, Lake Onega, Svir River, Ladoga Canals, and Neva River. It has access to the Volga-Baltic Waterway via Lake Onega. The... more


Yevropeus, Daniel (1820-18884), a scholar
David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus (in Finnish - Taneli; in Russian - David Petrovich) (1820-1884) was a folklorist, archaeologist. Ethnographer. He was born in the family of a pastor in Olkkola Farmstead of the parish of Savitaipale of the Vyborg... more


Zolotaryev, David Alekseyevich (1885-1937), a scholar
David Alekseyevich Zolotaryov (1885-1935) was an anthropologist, ethnographer, professor (1918). From 1903 to 1904 he was a student of the medical department of the Moscow University; from 1904 to 1907 he lived in Paris, listened to the lectures in... more



















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