петрозаводск

Petrozavodsk (Russian: Петрозаводск; Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish: Petroskoi) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some 27 kilometers (17 mi). The population is 261,987 (2010 Census); 266,160 (2002 Census); 269,485 (1989 Census).It was previously known as Shuysky Zavod (1703–1704) and Petrovskaya Sloboda (1704–1777). An ancient Swedish name was Onegaborg, known from a map from 1592 of the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius, and hence translated to Finnish as Äänislinna, a name used during the occupation of Eastern Karelia by Finnish forces during the Continuation War (1941–1944) in the context of World War II.

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