Karelian (North Karelian and Livvi Karelian: karjala, karjalan kieli; Ludic: kard'al, kard'alan kiel'; Tver Karelian: kariela, karielan kieli) is a Finnic language spoken mainly in the Russian Republic of Karelia.Linguistically, Karelian is closely related to the Finnish dialects spoken in eastern Finland, and some Finnish linguists have even classified Karelian as a dialect of Finnish, …

Olonets Karelian or Livvi (in southeastern parts of Karelian republic, before World War II also in the easternmost part of What was Finland before the war, and in different locations in the current area of Finland and elsewhere after the WWII) Ludic in the easternmost part of Karelian republic is currently considered as language of its own.

The Karelian ASSR was formed as a part of the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of June 27, 1923 and by the Decree of the VTsIK and the Council of People's Commissars of July 25, 1923 from the Karelian Labor Commune.

The Finnic (Fennic) or more precisely Balto-Finnic (Balto-Fennic, Baltic Finnic, Baltic Fennic) languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples.There are around 7 million speakers, who live mainly in Finland and Estonia.. Traditionally, eight Finnic languages have been recognized. The major modern …

The East Karelian Uprising (Finnish: itäkarjalaisten kansannousu, Karelian: päivännouzu karjalan kanzannouzu) and the Soviet–Finnish conflict 1921–1922 were an attempt by a group of East Karelian separatists to gain independence from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.They were aided by a number of Finnish volunteers, starting from 6 November 1921.

The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II.The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Viborg/Viipuri.After that, however, the fighting reached a stalemate.

Karelia stretches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland.It contains the two largest lakes in Europe, Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega.The Karelian Isthmus is located between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga.The highest point of Karelia, the 576 metres (1,890 ft) high Nuorunen, is located in the Russian side of the Maanselka hill region.. The border between Karelia and …

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Classification. Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family.It is a descendant of Old East Slavic, a language used in Kievan Rus', which was a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid 13th centuries. From the point of view of spoken language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn, the other three …

Numerous Cyrillic alphabets are based on the Cyrillic script.The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the 9th century AD and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius.It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian.