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Karelia

Karelia is a region in Northwestern Russia , known as the country of lakes. It has a strong cultural connection with Finland , with the ethnic Karelians closely related to the Finns. Much of the Finnish national epic Kalevala was collected here.

Popular Destinations

Petrozavodsk

Petrozavodsk is the capital city of Karelia with a population just above 263,000.

Sortavala

Sortavala is a small town along the northern shores of Lake Ladoga in Karelia.

Kizhi

Kizhi is an island in Karelia, Russia . It is part of the Silver Ring of cultural and historical centers of Northwestern Russia.

Destinations

Kostomuksha

Kostomuksha is a town in the northwest of the Republic of Karelia, Russia , located 30 kilometers from the border with Finland, on the shore of Lake Kontoki.

Valaam

Paanajärvi National Park

Impilahti

Impilahti is a rural locality in the Republic of Karelia, Russia , located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga near the Finnish border, about 200 kilometres west of Petrozavodsk , the capital city of the Republic of Karelia.

Karelia

  • Type: State with 533,000 residents
  • Description: first-level administrative division of Russia
  • Neighbors: Arkhangelsk Oblast , Finnish Lapland , Leningrad Oblast , Murmansk Oblast , North Karelia , South Karelia and Vologda Oblast
  • Categories: republic of Russia and locality
  • Location: Northwestern Russia , Russia , Eastern Europe , Europe
  • View on Open­Street­Map

Karelia Satellite Map

Also Known As

  • Achinese: Republik Karelia
  • Afar: Kareliya
  • Afrikaans: Republiek van Karelië
  • Albanian: Karelia
  • Albanian: Republika e Karelisë
  • Amharic: የካሬሊያ ሪፐብሊክ
  • Arabic: Republika han Karelia
  • Arabic: جمهورية كاريليا
  • Aragonese: Carelia
  • Aragonese: Republica de Carelia
  • Armenian: Կարելիա
  • Armenian: Կարելիայի Հանրապետություն
  • Asturian: República de Carelia
  • Awadhi: कारेलिया गणतंत्र
  • Azerbaijani: Kareliya Respublikası
  • Bashkir: Карелия
  • Bashkir: Карелия Республикаһы
  • Bashkir: Карьяла
  • Basque: Karelia
  • Basque: Kareliako Errepublika
  • Belarusian: Карэлія
  • Belarusian: Кар’яла
  • Belarusian: Рэспубліка Карэлія
  • Bengali: কারেলিয়া প্রজাতন্ত্র
  • Bosnian: Karelija
  • Bosnian: Republika Karelija
  • Breton: Republik Karelia
  • Bulgarian: Republik Karelia
  • Bulgarian: Република Карелия
  • Buriat: Карели Улас
  • Catalan: Carèlia
  • Catalan: Karelia
  • Catalan: República de Carèlia
  • Cebuano: Respublika Kareliya
  • Chechen: Карели
  • Chechen: Карелийн Республика
  • Chechen: Карьяла
  • Chinese: Karelia Kiōng-hô-kok
  • Chinese: 卡累利阿
  • Chinese: 卡累利阿共和国
  • Church Slavic: Карꙗла Димократїꙗ
  • Chuvash: Карел Республики
  • Chuvash: Карели Республики
  • Crimean Tatar: Kareliya
  • Croatian: Karelija
  • Croatian: Republika Karelija
  • Czech: Karelská republika
  • Czech: Karélie
  • Czech: Republika Karélie
  • Danish: Karelen
  • Danish: Republikken Karelija
  • Dimli (individual language): Karelya
  • Dutch: Karelië
  • Dutch: Republiek Karelië
  • Eastern Mari: Карелий
  • Eastern Mari: Карелий Республик
  • Egyptian Arabic: جمهورية كاريليا
  • Egyptian Arabic: كاريليا
  • English: Karelia (Russia)
  • English: Kareliya
  • English: Kareliya Republic
  • English: Karjala
  • English: Karjalan Tazovaldkund
  • English: Karjalan tasavalta
  • English: Karjalan tazavalda
  • English: Republic of Karelia
  • English: Respublika Kareliya
  • Erzya: Карелэнь Республикась
  • Esperanto: Karelio
  • Esperanto: Respubliko Karelio
  • Estonian: Karjala Vabariik
  • Faroese: Lýðveldið Karelia
  • Fiji Hindi: Republic of Karelia
  • Finnish: Karjala
  • Finnish: Karjalan Tazovaldkund
  • Finnish: Karjalan tasavalta
  • Finnish: Karjalan tazavalda
  • Finnish: Respublika Karelija
  • Finnish: Respublika Kareliya
  • Finnish: Респу́блика Каре́лия
  • French: Carélie
  • French: Carélie (Russie)‏
  • French: Karelia
  • French: République de Carélie
  • French: république de Carélie
  • Gagauz: Kareliya
  • Galician: República de Carelia
  • Georgian: კარელიის რესპუბლიკა
  • German: Karelien
  • German: Republik Karelien
  • Greek: Δημοκρατία της Καρελίας
  • Greek: Καρελία
  • Gujarati: કરેલિયા રિપબ્લિક
  • Hakka Chinese: Karelia Khiung-fò-koet
  • Hausa: Karelia Khiung-fò-koet
  • Hebrew: קריאלה
  • Hebrew: קרליה
  • Hebrew: רפובליקת קרליה
  • Hindi: कारेलिया गणतंत्र
  • Hindi: केरलिया गणराज्य
  • Hungarian: Karél Köztársaság
  • Hungarian: Karélia
  • Ido: Republiko di Karelia
  • Inari Sami: Kärjil täsiväldi
  • Indonesian: Republik Karelia
  • Interlingue: Republica de Karelia
  • Inupiaq: Kareliiq
  • Irish: Poblacht na Cairéile
  • Italian: Carelia
  • Italian: Repubblica di Carelia
  • Japanese: カレリア共和国
  • Kabardian: Карел республикэ
  • Kalmyk: Карелуд таңһч
  • Kannada: ಕರೀಲಿಯಾ
  • Kara-Kalpak: Kareliya
  • Karelian: Karjal
  • Karelian: Karjala
  • Karelian: Karjalan tašavalta
  • Kazakh: Карелия
  • Kazakh: Карелия Республикасы
  • Kazakh: Карьяла
  • Kirghiz: Карилия
  • Komi-Permyak: Карьяла
  • Komi-Permyak: Республика Карьяла
  • Komi: Карелия
  • Korean: 카렐리야 공화국
  • Latin: Carelia
  • Latin: Res Publica Carelia
  • Latvian: Karēlijas Republika
  • Lezghian: Карелия
  • Lezghian: Республика Карелия
  • Lithuanian: Karelija
  • Lithuanian: Karelijos Respublika
  • Livvi: Karjal
  • Livvi: Karjalan tazavaldu
  • Lombard: Republega de Carelia
  • Macedonian: Карелија
  • Macedonian: Република Карелија
  • Malay: Republik Karelia
  • Marathi: कॅरेलिया
  • Marathi: कॅरेलिया प्रजासत्ताक
  • Mazanderani: کارلیا جمهوری
  • Min Dong Chinese: Karelia
  • Min Nan Chinese: Karelia Kiōng-hô-kok
  • Mingrelian: კარელიაშ რესპუბლიკა
  • Mongolian: Бүгд Найрамдах Карель Улс
  • Northern Frisian: Kareelien (Republiik)
  • Northern Frisian: Kareelien
  • Northern Sami: Gárjil
  • Northern Sami: Gárjila dásseváldi
  • Norwegian: Karelia
  • Norwegian: Republikken Karelia
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Karelia
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Karelia
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Karelia
  • Occitan (post 1500): Republica de Carèlia
  • Ossetian: Карелийы Республикæ
  • Ossetian: Республикæ Карели
  • Persian: جمهوری کارلیا
  • Polish: Karelia
  • Polish: Karjala
  • Polish: Republika Karelii
  • Portuguese: Carélia
  • Portuguese: República da Carélia
  • Pushto: کارېليا جمهوريت
  • Romanian: Carelia
  • Romanian: Karelia
  • Romanian: Republica Carelia
  • Romanian: Republica Carelă
  • Russia Buriat: Карели Улас
  • Russia Buriat: Кареэл Республика
  • Russian: Карелия
  • Russian: Карельская республика
  • Russian: Карьяла
  • Russian: Республика Карелия
  • Scots: Republic o Karelie
  • Serbian: Карелија
  • Serbian: Република Карелија
  • Serbo-Croatian: Karelija
  • Serbo-Croatian: Republika Karelija
  • Sinhala: කරෙලියා ජනරජය
  • Skolt Sami: Kaʹrjjel tääʹssväʹldd
  • Slovak: Karelsko
  • Slovenian: Karelija
  • Slovenian: Republika Karelija
  • South Azerbaijani: کارلیا جومهوریتی
  • Spanish: Carelia
  • Spanish: República de Carelia
  • Spanish: República de Karelia
  • Sundanese: Républik Karélia
  • Swahili: Karelia
  • Swedish: Karelska republiken
  • Tagalog: Karelia
  • Tagalog: Republika ng Karelia
  • Tajik: Карелия
  • Tamil: கரேலிய குடியரசு
  • Tamil: கரேலியா
  • Tamil: குடியரசு ஆப் கரேலியா
  • Tatar: Kareliä
  • Tatar: Kareliä Cömhüriäte
  • Tatar: Karjala
  • Tatar: Карелия
  • Telugu: రిపబ్లిక్ ఆఫ్ కారేలియా
  • Thai: คาเรเลีย
  • Thai: สาธารณรัฐคาเรลียา
  • Thai: สาธารณรัฐคาเรเลีย
  • Turkish: Karelya Cumhuriyeti
  • Udmurt: Карелия
  • Uighur: كارېلىيە
  • Ukrainian: Карелія
  • Ukrainian: Республіка Карелія
  • Upper Sorbian: Republika Karelska
  • Urdu: جمہوریہ کاریلیا
  • Urdu: جمہوریہ کریلیا
  • Uzbek: Kareliya
  • Uzbek: Kareliya Respublikasi
  • Veps: Karjal
  • Veps: Karjalan Tazovaldkund
  • Veps: Venäman Karjal
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Karelia
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Kareliya
  • Võro: Kar’ala Vabariik
  • Waray (Philippines): Republika han Karelia
  • Western Frisian: Kareelje (republyk)
  • Western Frisian: Kareelje
  • Western Mari: Карели Республика
  • Western Panjabi: کریلیا
  • Wu Chinese: 卡累利阿共和国
  • Yakut: Карелия Республиката
  • Yakut: Карелия Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ
  • Yue Chinese: 卡累利阿
  • Zaza: Cumhuriyetê Kareliya
  • Zaza: Cumhuriyetê Karelya
  • Zaza: Karelya
  • Karelian ASSR
  • Karel’skaya ASSR
  • Karel’skaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika
  • Karialia
  • Republiko Karelia

Karelia

This article is about Russian Karelia. See North Karelia and South Karelia for the Finnish regions on the other side of the border.

Karelia (Karelian and Finnish: Karjala) is a region in Northwestern Russia, known as the country of lakes. It has a strong cultural connection with Finland, with the ethnic Karelians closely related to the Finns. Much of the Finnish national epic Kalevala was collected here.

Cities edit

  • 61.783333 34.35 1Petrozavodsk (Karelian: Petroskoi) — the capital and largest city of Karelia, with a fine collection of neoclassical architecture and a summer hydrofoil service to Kizhi
  • 64.516667 34.766667 2Belomorsk (Karelian: Šuomua) — a town on the White Sea, at the mouth of the White Sea–Baltic Canal
  • 61.6697 31.1653 3Impilahti (Karelian: Imbilahti) — a small town on the northern shores of Lake Ladoga
  • 65.2022 31.1753 4Kalevala (Karelian: Kalevala, formerly Uhtua) — a small town, renamed in 1963 for the Finnish national epic, some of which was collected here
  • 64.95 34.6 5Kem (Karelian: Kemi) — a small town on the coast not far from Solovki with a spectacular 18th century wooden cathedral
  • 62.2 34.266667 6Kondopoga (Karelian: Kondupohju) — an industrial town on Onega, the Murmansk Railway and the Blue Highway
  • 64.583333 30.6 7Kostomuksha (Karelian: Koštamuš) — a large town built as a Finnish-Russian cooperation from 1977–1985 for iron ore mining, functions also as a dacha-style resort mostly for Finns every summer and hosts a yearly summer chamber music festival
  • 61.516667 30.2 8Lakhdenpokhya (Karelian: Lahdenpohju)
  • 60.983333 32.966667 9Olonets (Karelian: Anus) — a small historic town near the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery; the only town of size in Karelia where ethnic Karelians constitute a majority
  • 62.91713 34.45689 10Medvezhyegorsk (Karelian: Karhumägi) — a town on Onega and the White Sea–Baltic Canal, site of mass murders under Stalin and battles during World War II
  • 61.566667 31.483333 11Pitkyaranta (Karelian: Pitkyrandu)
  • 62.85 34.816667 12Povenets (Karelian: Poventsa) — small town, here begins Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal (White Sea-Baltic Channel)
  • 61.808 36.534 13Pudozh (Karelian: Puudoži) — town at the end of the Blue Highway.
  • 63.74147 34.32218 14Segezha (Karelian: Segeža) — town on Lake Vygozero (part of the White Sea–Baltic Canal) and the Murmansk railway
  • 61.7 30.666667 15Sortavala (Karelian: Sortavala) — the marble canyon of nearby Ruskeala Park is beautiful, the city of Sortavala has interesting architecture, having been the Finnish showcase of functionalism and Carelianism.
  • 62.083333 32.366667 16Suoyarvi (Karelian: Suojärvi) — town at the Kostomuksha railway junction

Other destinations edit

  • 60.842778 31.459722 1 Lake Ladoga — the largest lake of Europe.
    • 61.374167 30.960833 2Valaam Archipelago — lies in the northern portion of the lake and is famous for its monastery.
    • 61.6 30.83 3Lagoda Skerries National Park (1,220 km²) is at the lake’s northern shores, by Sortavala.
    • Ancient drawings, hammered in the rocks (in the Pudozhsky District). These, together with petroglyphs a little south of Kem (in Belomorsky District), were in 2021 inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
    • 62.083333 35.216667 5Kizhi island — famous for its beautiful wooden church and other buildings, the whole architectural ensemble of Kizhi island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

    Understand edit

    Karelia borders Finland to the west, Murmansk Oblast to the north, the White Sea to the northeast, Arkhangelsk Oblast to the east, Vologda Oblast to the southeast, and Leningrad Oblast to the south.

    Karelia is known as “the country of lakes.” One quarter of Karelia’s surface is covered by water including about sixty thousand lakes. The second-largest lake of Europe, Lake Onega, is located in Karelia. The largest lake of Europe, Lake Ladoga, is shared between Karelia and Leningrad Oblast. Wherever there is land, there are dense forests covering the ground.

    Karelia has a strong cultural connection with Finland, and the Karelians, after whom the republic is named, are a Finno-Ugric group very closely related to the Finns. Much of the Finnish national epic Kalevala was collected here. The border between Sweden (which Finland was part of) and Russia has crossed the lands of the Karelians since medieval times, being moved several times (see Nordic history). The parts Finland lost to Russia in the Second World War are still a bit of a sore spot for many Finns. Much of the Karelian population was evacuated to Finland when the area was ceded to the Soviet Union. Tourism from Finland was common until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and there was significant Finnish support for projects supporting the Karelian language and culture.

    After the Finnish civil war of 1918 and after the Great Depression of 1929, many Finns, including Finnish emigrants to North America, moved to Karelia, simply for work or also for building a greater future. They became communities of their own and contributed significantly to development of the region. During this time Petrozavodsk (Finnish: Petroskoi) grew from some 20,000 to some 50,000 inhabitants. Many Finns also moved to Kondopoga (Kontupohja) and Uhtua (since 1963: Kelevala). The Great Terror of Stalin in the late 1930s hit the Finnish population in the Soviet Union hard and little of the communities remained afterwards.

    Talk edit

    Everybody understands and speaks Russian, although many are bilingual in Karelian, Finnish, or, on a smaller scale, Veps (a third Finno-Ugric language). These three languages are also officially recognized. A traveller could get by with only knowledge of Finnish, as many local ethnic Russians understand a good deal of the language.

    Basic English is widely understood by young people; Swedish is also relatively popular.

    Get in edit

    Finland closed the border crossings on short notice in 2023, with the closure extended for a few months at a time and still closed as of March 2024. Check Finland#Get in and latest news on border policy.

    By plane edit

    As of 2014, the only flights to Karelia from outside are from Moscow (Domodedovo) 5 times a week and from Saint-Petersburg 2 times a week to Petrozavodsk (Besovetc). The timetable changes often though.

    By train edit

    There are several trains to Petrozavodsk from Saint Petersburg (7 hours; both overnight and day-time, departing from Ladozhsky railway station) and from Moscow (16 hours, overnight). Trains that go through main Karelian transport corridor: Svir–Petrozavodsk–Medvegjyegorsk–Belomorsk, are almost always bound to Petrozavodsk or Murmansk. The most popular, long-known and comfortable trains are 15/16 Moscow–Saint-Petersburg–Murmansk “Arktika”, 17/18 Moscow–Petrozavodsk “Kareliya” (bypassing Saint-Petersburg), 5/6 Saint-Petersburg–Petrozavodsk (evening trains that runs 5 hours to Petrozavodsk without stops), 657/658 Saint-Petersburg–Petrozavodsk (overnight), 21/22 Saint-Petersburg–Murmansk (arriving to Petrozavodsk from Saint-Petersburg just after midnight and leaving back very early in the morning). There are several more trains from both capitals, some often seasonal or extra services. Seasonal and extra services trains, as usual, are more close to the traditional Russian and less comfortable style.

    Other trains to Kareliya run only several times a week and ofter are seasonal, or on and off. As of 2014, the following routes are operational: Minsk–Murmansk (pass Petrozavodsk south Tu Sa, north Tu Th). Saint-Petersburg–Sortavala–Kostomuksha (leaves Saint-Petersburg W F, arrives to Saint-Petersburg Th Su), and Murmansk–Vologda (starts from Murmansk F Su, from Vologda W F).

    By bus edit

    Petrozavodsk is connected by buses with Joensuu in Finland (from Joensuu Th–Su at 16:00, from Petrozavodsk Th–Su at 06:00, transfer tickets to Finland buses are available), Saint-Petersburg (4–5 times a day), Cherepovets through Tikhvin (from Cherepovets F at 07:30), Vologda through Voznesenje ferry (from Vologda M Sa at 08:10), daily from Vytegra through Pudog, and on Tu F Sa from Vytegra through Voznesenje. There are also buses from Saint-Petersburg to Pudog, Pitkyaranta and Sortavala. Complete timetables (subject to change) are on Petrozavodsk bus station site [dead link] .

    By car edit

    By car there are two main routes to Karelia: through M-18 from Saint-Petersburg (from Moscow you can get to M-18 bypassing Saint-Petersburg through A114 Zuevo–Volkhov–Novaya Ladoga), and by M-8 and R-5 from Moscow via Vologda. An alternate route is via R-37 Lodeinoe Pole–Vytegra and then on to R-5 (this route is informally called Arhangelsk trakt), but this route contains enough unpaved stretches. Most Karelian roads (other than M-18) are in a bad state, rather bumpy (this includes Karelian part of R-5, though not Vologda region part), and often include unpaved stretches.

    There are border crossings from Finland, in very sparsely populated areas: 65.798333 30.1075 1 Suoperä (Суоперя) between Kuusamo and Kestenga, 64.545017 29.98475 2 Vartius/Ljuttja (Люття) between Kajaani and Kuhmo and Kostomuksha, and 62.1726 30.6131 3 Niirala in Tohmajärvi/Vyartsilya (Вя́ртсиля) between Joensuu and Sortavala. The latter was quite busy until 2023, with a million passages a year.

    Get around edit

    Most public transport in Karelia runs along part of bus and train routes from Saint-Petersburg to Murmansk: on M18 from Olonets, and by rail from station Svir’ near Podporogye further north through Petrozavodsk, Kondopoga, Medveg’yegorsk, Segezha, Belomorsk and Kem’. M18 runs to the west of most of those towns, with distance of 3 to 20 km from them.

    Other relatively popular bus routes are to Sortavala (through Olonets, or via more direct route through A121), Suoyarvi and Spasskaya Guba. There are quite a number of suburb buses, starting from Petrozavodsk.

    Apart from these routes transport (including buses to Kostomuksha and Pudozh among others) is quite scarce, and the number of local buses is small.

    To get to Valaam you’ll have to get on public or private boat from Sortavala. To get to Kizhi in navigation period, you can get on boat or hydrofoil from Petrozavodsk or Velikaya Guba village. In winter there may be an occasional connection to Kizhi via cushioncraft or helicopter from airport “Peski” in Petrozavodsk. Sometimes there may be a helicopter to Pudozh, or in summer a boat to the opposite shore of Onega, not far from Pudozh.

    There is a wide border zone towards Finland, for which a special permit is needed.

    See edit

    • 61.388744 30.944229 1Valaam Monastery . The monastery of the Finnish Orthodox Church. Originally Valamo was built on an island of Ladoga but was evacuated during war with the Soviets in the 1940s. The monks fled with their icons and rebuilt Valamo close to Heinävesi, a bit west of Joensuu. The monastery is visited by many Finns, Orthodox or not, and is featured in most tourist guides as well. Pilgrims come to see the ancient icons from the old Valamo monastery. Boats full of tourists leave during the summer months from Sortavala, Lakhdenpokhya, and Pitkyaranta, as well as big river cruise boats from Saint Petersburg and Moscow. It’s also possible to travel here by helicopter from Petrozavodsk. The trip by boat from Sortavala costs 750 руб one way. The journey takes 40 minutes. A boat leaves at 09:00. You get an excursion for 1500 руб (the boat leaves at 09:30), which includes visits to other sketes. There is a marshrutka on Valaam, which charges 70 руб for the 6 km (3.7 mi) between the Monastirskaja landing and Nikolovskaja landing. Walks on Valaam, visiting the sketes and crossing the bridges to some islets are pleasant. There is a small fjord north of the Nikolovskaja landing. ( updated Sep 2018 )
    • 62.275278 33.979722 2 Kivach waterfall . ( updated Sep 2018 )

    Itineraries edit

    The Blue Highway runs from Mo i Rana on Norway’s Atlantic coast across Sweden and Finland and then via Sortavala and Petrozavodsk to Pudozh on Onega’s eastern shore.

    Do edit

    There is quite some forest and waterways where you can hike or paddle. In some areas you may be able to find tourist businesses arranging tours, whitewater adventures and the like.

    Eat edit

    Drink edit

    Stay safe edit

    Most of the republic is very sparsely populated. Away from the main roads you will have to manage mostly on your own.

    Go next edit

    The Solovetsky Islands and Monastery on the White Sea are another nearby UNESCO World Heritage Site in Arkhangelsk Oblast and can be reached by boat from Karelia.

    Trains head north from Petrozavodsk to Murmansk.

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