Elisenvaara
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Elisenvaara
Элисенваара | |
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Coordinates: 61°24′38″N 29°45′52″E / 61.41056°N 29.76444°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Republic of Karelia |
Administrative district | Lakhdenpokhsky District |
Population | |
• Total | 720 |
• Municipal district | Lakhdenpokhsky Municipal District |
• Capital of | Elisenvaarskoye Rural Settlement |
Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK [2]) |
Postal code(s)[3] | 186720 |
OKTMO ID | 86618450101 |
Elisenvaara (Russian: Элисенваара; Finnish: Elisenvaara) is a settlement in Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, and an important station of the Viipuri-Joensuu railroad. The station is also linked by railway to Savonlinna, Finland. The settlement has an approximate population of 686 people.
History
The settlement grew around the railroad junction, with railroad connections to Viipuri, Sortavala, Lappeenranta and Savonlinna. In 1940, in the Moscow Armistice, Finnish Karelia, along with the Saint Petersburg-Sortavala railroad, was ceded to the Soviet Union. Connections to Lappeenranta and Savonlinna were cut.
The bombing of the Elisenvaara railway station on 20 June 1944, during the final stages of the Continuation War, was the most fatal bombing in Finnish history; over a hundred civilians were killed when the Soviet air bombs hit a train of Karelian evacuees.[4]
In 1946-1992 — an urban-type settlement.
References
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
- ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
- ^ Vaiettu murhenäytelmä Archived 2007-03-08 at the Wayback Machine - YLE (in Finnish)
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