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).
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.
