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11 unusual facts about Karelia


Dūdas

The other end of the perabor is attached to a curved horn - rahaven - with a widening opening made out of an especially hard wood, Karelian birch.

Genrich Altshuller

He settled in Petrozavodsk (Karelia in north-western Russia) with his wife and granddaughter.

Jaakko Paavolainen

His boyhood memories från Carelia he pictures in Lapsuus Kanneljärvellä (1982) and the life of his cousin Olavi Paavolainen in a 1992 published volume.

Karjalan veljeskunta

Karjalan veljeskunta (Karelian Brotherhood) was an organization founded in 1907 as a Russian Orthodox society, whose goal was to russify Karelias orthodox population.

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Poduzhemye

Poduzhemye (also Kem/Uzhmana or Uzhmana) is an air base in Karelia, Russia located 16 km west of Kem.

Rolf Singer

During his time at the Academy, Singer made many expeditions to Siberia, the Altai Mountains, and Karelia.

Ruisreikäleipä

In eastern Finland thick rye bread, usually called ruislimppu (rye loaf), is more common, but traditionally only bread baked from rye has been called bread in the Karelia and Savo (eastern) regions.

To the Valiant Soldier of the Karelian Front

All participants "of the liquidation of the intervention of White-Finnish bands into the territory of Karelia" received this award.

"Karelian Front" was an informal name of the Karelian Battle Region of the Petrograd Military District in the territory of Karelia and part of Murmansk guberniya, formed for the suppression of the Karelian Uprising of 1921-1922.

Veikko Karvonen

Karvonen was born in Sakkola, a small Karelian town that then belonged to Finland but was invaded by the Soviet Union during World War II.


Anatoli Ivanishin

Since 1992, he served as a senior fighter pilot in the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment based in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, part of the 6th Air Army.

Battle of Nietjärvi

The place is located in the Ladoga Karelia district, north of Lake Ladoga (in the southwestern corner of the Aunus Karelia frontier), in an area which belonged to Finland up to the end of the Continuation War (1944).

Belomorsky

Belomorskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Belomorsk and eleven rural localities in Belomorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Eric Anundsson

:My grandfather Thorgny could well remember the Uppsala king Eirik Eymundson, and used to say of him that when he was in his best years he went out every summer on expeditions to different countries, and conquered for himself Finland, Kirjalaland, Courland, Esthonia, and the eastern countries all around; and at the present day the earth-bulwarks, ramparts, and other great works which he made are to be seen.

Finns

In addition to the Finnish-speaking inhabitants of Finland, also Kvens (people of Finnish descent in Norway), Tornedalians (people of Finnish descent in northernmost Sweden), and Karelians in the historic Finnish province of Karelia and Evangelical Lutheran Ingrian Finns (both in the northwestern Russian Federation), as well as Finnish expatriates in various countries are usually considered as Finnish people.

Jokela school shooting

The Lutheran Archbishop Jukka Paarma of Turku, the Orthodox Archbishop Leo of Karelia, the Catholic Bishop Józef Wróbel of Helsinki and other church authorities have expressed their condolences to the relatives and loved ones of those who died in the massacre.

Karelian question in Finnish politics

There are some individual politicians who support the return of Karelia, such as MEP Ari Vatanen, and two candidates in the presidential election of 2006: Timo Soini and Arto Lahti.

Kemsky

Kemskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kem and three rural localities in Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Keskisaari

There are a number of places called Keskisaari around Finland, including Lappee (Lapvesi) and Koivisto (Björkö) in Carelia and Maaninka.

Kondopozhsky

Kondopozhskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kondopoga and three rural localities in Kondopozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Lakhdenpokhsky

Lakhdenpokhskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Lakhdenpokhya and the station of Yakkima in Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Medvezhyegorsky

Medvezhyegorskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Medvezhyegorsk and three rural localities in Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Olonetsky

Olonetskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Olonets and eight rural localities in Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Onega Bay

Administratively, the coast and the islands are shared between Kemsky and Belomorsky Districts of the Republic of Karelia, and Onezhsky, Primorsky, and Solovetsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

Paavo Talvela

Once back in Finland, Talvela commanded first the Finnish II Corps in northern Karelia until June 1944 when he took over the command of the Aunus Group.

Pitkyarantsky

Pitkyarantskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Pitkyaranta and three rural localities in Pitkyarantsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Postage stamps and postal history of Karelia

Karelia has appeared in philately several times; first as a breakaway republic from Soviet Russia in 1922, later when Eastern Karelia was occupied by Finland during the Continuation War of 1941 to 1944, and in the post-Soviet period when provisional stamps and cinderellas were issued.

Pudozhsky

Pudozhskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Pudozh and eleven rural localities in Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia are incorporated as

Pudozhsky mine, a titanium mine in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

Rjurik Lonin

In 1963, Lonin made his first folkore collecting trip outside of Karelia, to the Veps villages of the Lodeĭnopol’skiĭ raĭon in the Leningrad Oblast’.

Scandinavian Collectors Club

The Scandinavian Collectors Club is a United States-based philatelic society dedicated to the collection and study of the postage stamps and postal history of the Scandinavia region, including the geographical regions of Åland, Aunus, the Danish West Indies, Denmark, the Faroes, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Karelia, North Ingermanland, Norway, Slesvig, and Sweden.

Segezhsky

Segezhskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Segezha in Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia is incorporated as

Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill (Segezhsky), a pulp and paper company in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

Seppo Räty

Now Räty is coaching another javelin talent from Northern Karelia, Oona Sormunen.

Suoyarvsky

Suoyarvskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Suoyarvi in Suoyarvsky District of the Republic of Karelia is incorporated as

Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky

He served on the Leningrad Front, Volkhov Front, and the Karelia Front, as a correspondent for military newspapers.