WebKarelia 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 …

WebKarelia (Finnish: Karjala) is a historical province of Finland which Finland partly ceded to the Soviet Union after the Winter War of 1939–40. The Finnish Karelians include the present-day inhabitants of North and South Karelia and the still-surviving evacuees from the ceded territories. Present-day Finnish Karelia has 315,000 inhabitants. The more than 400,000 …

WebKarelia's economy is based on forestry, mining, tourism, agriculture, fishing and paper industry. Despite being 0,4% of Russia's population, 65–70% of all Russian trout is grown in the Republic, 26% of iron ore pellets, 20% of paper, 12% of wood pulp and cellulose. Karelia's gross regional product (GRP) in 2007 was 109.5 billion rubles.

WebThe Finnish invasion of East Karelia was a military campaign in 1941. It was part of the Continuation War.Finnish troops occupied East Karelia and held it until 1944. For over a month after the outbreak of the Continuation War, the Karelian Army reinforced and prepared to resume its earlier offensive while waiting for the recapture of the Karelian …

WebKarelia Tobacco Company Inc. (Karelia) is an international tobacco company headquartered in the city of Kalamata, Greece.It is also the country’s largest tobacco manufacturer and exporter of fine tobacco products. Karelia brands are sold in more than 65 countries around the globe in Western and Eastern Europe, the Far East, the Middle …

WebEtymology. The name of the city is a combination of words Peter (Peter the Great) and zavod (meaning factory).It was previously known as Shuysky Zavod (1703–1704) and Petrovskaya Sloboda (1704–1777), which was the first name of the city related to Peter the Great. It was renamed to Petrozavodsk after Catherine the Great granted the settlement …

WebKarelia. In 1935, Himmler contacted a Finnish nobleman and author, Yrjö von Grönhagen, after seeing one of his articles about the Kalevala folklore in a Frankfurt newspaper. Grönhagen agreed to lead an expedition through the Karelia region of Finland to record pagan sorcerers and witches. Because there was uncertainty about whether the ...

WebThe Diocese of Helsinki has the most members, over 28,000. The Diocese of Helsinki is the seat of the archbishop. The diocese is divided into three parishes, with 50 priests. The main church of the diocese is Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki. Characteristic to the diocese is the large number of members who have recently immigrated to Finland, especially in the …

WebJean Sibelius ( en sueco), registrado al nacer como Johan Julius Christian Sibelius [1] (Hämeenlinna, 8 de diciembre de 1865-Järvenpää, 20 de septiembre de 1957), fue un compositor y violinista finlandés de finales del Romanticismo y comienzos del Modernismo.Es ampliamente reconocido como el mejor compositor de su país y, a través …

WebOperation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.The operation, code-named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), …