Segezha

 The city of Segezha is located in the central part of Karelia (approximately on 270 km. to the north of Petrozavodsk), on the west bank of Vygozero, at a confluence of the river of Segezha with it. The basis of the name "Segezha" conducts the origin from Finnish "sees" - pure, light (correctly the name of our city is said with an accent on the second syllable - Segezha).

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   The mention of the village of Segezha is available in lists of settlements of the Olonets province for 1905. In 1915 from communication with construction of the Murmansk railroad on the map of Karelia there was a Segezha station. Later industrial development of edge began. The grown in the 1930th years in connection with construction of pulp and paper mill and timber mill, large working settlement in December, 1943 was renamed into the city, and in 1945 became the center of the administrative region. In 1991 the city of Segezha is referred by the Resolution of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Karelia to category of cities of republican subordination. (is more detailed about stories of Vygozersky edge).

   The Segezhsky area - the industrial center of Karelia. In a social production about 300 enterprises, various on forms of ownership and types of business activity are registered. In the city there is a professional lyceum, 5 schools, 11 preschool institutions, school of arts, sports school and Sports palace, the Center of children's creativity. In the city and the area of 16 club establishments, the methodical center of club work - the Center of culture, Recreation center and technicians of joint stock company, library, since 1998 works the historical and cultural museum and educational center. Near the city there are monuments history of the Great Patriotic War, a nature sanctuary - Voitsky is blown, a monument of national culture and architecture - the village of Nadvoitsa.

   The largest enterprises of the area - Segezhsky pulp and paper mill, Nadvoitsky aluminum plant, Segezhsky LDK. Transport economic relations consist of delivery of oil products, coal, chemical freights, building materials, forest and trade freights and export of production forest, woodworking and pulp and paper industry. The basis of a transport network is made: a railway line St. Petersburg - Murmansk, highways of federal value St. Petersburg - Murmansk, Kochkom - Rebola, the water basin of Vygozero and the Belomoro-Baltiysky channel with an exit in White and Baltic exhausting. In the territory of the area there are generating power supply system sources: Ondsky hydroelectric power station of the cascade of Vygsky hydroelectric power stations of JSC Karelenergo which is a part of RAO UES.

   The Segezhsky area occupies the space of 10,7 thousand km.2 (these are about 6% of the territory of the Republic), its population makes about 50 thousand people, them over 34 thousand live them in the regional center (as of 2002). The area unites 35 settlements, the largest - the regional center Segezha, the settlement of city type of Nadvoitsa (11 thousand), the settlement of Valdai (1.4 thousand). Over 80% of the population - Russians, Karelians and Finns less than 5%. From the South our area borders on the Medvezhyegorsky area, from the West - on Muyezersky, the North - the Belomorsky area. Our neighbors from the East - the Arkhangelsk region.

   Climate of the area moderate and continental with lines of the sea. Duration of steady frosts - 4 months, the coldest month - January, the minimum temperature -46 °, the warmest month - July, the maximum temperature +35 °. Existence of a large number of the rivers, lakes, bogs promotes increase in humidity of air and quantity of fogs; on average in a year 500 mm of rainfall drop out. Soils are presented by podsolic types, differ in low natural fertility, have silvicultural value. The vegetation is characterized, generally coniferous breeds.