Belomorsk
Sign in to saveBelomorsk (; ; formerly ) is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Belomorsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Беломорск
- Russian inhabited locality.other_name
- Šuomua
- Russian inhabited locality.other_lang
- Karelian
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Улица Пашкова.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Pashkova Street in Belomorsk
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Belomorsk.png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Belomorsk COA (2019).jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Belomorsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Belomorsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Belomorsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Belomorskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Belomorsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2
- Belomorskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 11217
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Belomorsk (; ; formerly ) is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea. Population:
==History== In the beginning it was a small village named Soroka (), or Sorotskaya () in the official Russian Imperial statistics. On September 11, 1938, Soroka and several nearby localities were merged to form the town of Belomorsk. In 1941–1944, during World War II, it served as the temporary capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.