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Priozersk (, before 1948: ; ) is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the northwestern shore of Lake Ladoga, at the estuary of the northern armlet of the Vuoksi River on the Karelian Isthmus.
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Priozersk and before
* June 15 – The Soviet MVD arrests a group of 12 Soviet " refuseniks " at Smolny Airport outside of Leningrad before they can board a 12-seater Aeroflot Antonov An-2 for a flight to Priozersk.
Priozersk and 1948
In 1948, Käkisalmi was renamed to Priozersk like names all cities and communities annexed from Finland to Leningrad Oblast 1947.
Priozersk and ;
The main landmark of Priozersk, Korela Fortress, has historically been the center for the Karelians of the Karelian Isthmus ; and from time to time been the northwestern outpost of the realm of the Russians or the eastern outpost of the realm of the Swedes.
Priozersk and is
The capital of the county was Kexholm (), which today is Priozersk.
Korela Fortress is the main landmark of Priozersk
The entire run of the river is 162 kilometers via the Priozersk branch or 150 kilometers via the Taipale branch.
They are Baikonur ( formerly Leninsk ), a city constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Kurchatov township at the Semipalatinsk Test Site and Priozersk which is the administrative center of the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile testing site.
Priozersk and town
The city of Vyborg and the town of Priozersk are situated on the northwestern part of the isthmus.
In 1337, religious strife between Orthodox Karelians and the Swedes led to a Swedish attack on the town of Korela ( Keksholm, Priozersk ) and Viborg ( Viipuri in Finnish, Vyborg in Russian ), in which the Novgorodian and Ladogan merchants there were slaughtered.
Korela Fortress ( Russian: Корела, Finnish: Käkisalmen linna, Swedish: Kexholms slott ), at the town of Priozersk, was founded by the Karelians who named the place Käkisalmi.
It was located in the town of Käkisalmi on the Karelian Isthmus ( now Priozersk, Russia ).
Priozersk and Russia
* Sweden gained the province and fortress of Kexholm ( Käkisalmi ) ( now Priozersk ), south-west Karelia and the province of Ingria — including the fortress of Nöteborg, known as " the key to Finland " ( now Shlisselburg, Russia )
Priozersk and at
* Priozersk ( at )
A photograph of the Korela Fortress | Castle of Kexholm at Priozersk.
The river enters Lake Ladoga in three branches, an older main northern branch at Priozersk ( Käkisalmi ), a smaller branch few km.
Priozersk and Lake
Lake Vuoksa near Priozersk
Apart from the old towns of Vyborg and Priozersk, and churches on the Konevets island of Lake Ladoga, since the late 19th century a number of other archaeological sites have been discovered on the isthmus.
The predecessor of the Priozersk facilities, Priozersky Pulp and Paper Mill, a major polluter of Lake Ladoga constructed in 1931, was closed down in 1986.
One of these lakes, Uusijärvi close to Priozersk, was renamed by the Soviets to Ozero Vuoksa (" Lake Vuoksa ").
Priozersk and Ladoga
Since 1857 Suvanto and the Taipaleenjoki have constituted the southern armlet of the Vuoksi River, which has decreased the level of the original northern armlet emptying into Ladoga near Kexholm ( now Priozersk ) by 4 m, isolating it as a separate river basin.
Since 1857 Suvanto and Taipaleenjoki have constituted the southern armlet of Vuoksi River, which has decreased the level of the original northern armlet emptying into Ladoga near Kexholm ( now Priozersk ) by 4 m and become the main stream.
Priozersk and .
The isthmus, especially the land along Saint Petersburg – Vyborg and Saint Petersburg – Priozersk railroads, hosts numerous dachas.
The pulp-and-paper, timber and woodworking industries ( JSC Svetogorsk, pulp and paper mill in Svetogorsk, Vyborgsky Pulp and Paper Mill in Vyborg, Priozersky Furniture and Woodworking Industrial Complex and Priozersky Woodworking Factory in Priozersk, as well as other smaller enterprises all over the isthmus ) are well developed in Vyborgsky and Priozersky Districts.
From the Middle Ages, Priozersk was known as Korela to Russians and Käkisalmi to Karelians and Finns.
New Priozersk was settled with a totally new population of people ( mainly Russians, Belorussian, Ukrainians ) from the Soviet Union, who remain the majority of the local population.
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