Petrozavodsk
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Petrozavodsk is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some 27 kilometers. The population of the city is 280,890 as of 2022.
A church in Petrozavodsk, as photographed ca. 1912 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Round Square in central Petrozavodsk
The administration and the Petrozavodsk council occupy the building at 2 Lenin Prospect
The Petrozavodsk State University
The Finnish military administration in Eastern Karelia was an interim administrative system established in those areas of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union which were oc
Petrozavodsk
…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. Archeological discoveries in the urban area indicate the presence of a settlement…
Finns in Petrozavodsk in 1941
Prime minister Jukka Rangell (in the middle) also Major General of the Military Administration of East Karelia Johan Arajuuri (right) and lieutenant colonel Paloheimo (left), east Karelian village in the summer of 1942.
In 1943, the Finnish Post Office issued its own stamp for the occupation administration of Eastern Karelia.