Khelyulya
Sign in to saveKhelyulya (; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Tokhma River, west of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,793.
Key facts
- Russian urban type settlement.en_name
- Khelyulya
- Russian urban type settlement.ru_name
- Хелюля
- Russian urban type settlement.other_lang
- Karelian
- Russian urban type settlement.image_skyline
- Хелюля сверху.jpg
- Russian urban type settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view at the settlement in July 2022
- Russian urban type settlement.map_label_position
- right
- Russian urban type settlement.federal_subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Russian urban type settlement.adm_city_jur
- town of republic significance of Sortavala
- Russian urban type settlement.inhabloc_cat
- Urban-type settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.mun_district_jur
- Sortavalsky Municipal District
- Russian urban type settlement.urban_settlement_jur
- Sortavalsky Urban Settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.mun_admctr_of
- Sortavalsky Urban Settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.pop_2010census
- 2793
- Russian urban type settlement.current_cat_date
- 1972
- Russian urban type settlement.postal_codes
- 186760
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- In the Russian Empire
- Finland (1917-1940)
- The war period
- The USSR
- Economy
- Industry
- Culture
- Administrative and municipal status
- Attractions
- References
- Notes
- Sources
- External links
Khelyulya (; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Tokhma River, west of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,793.
==History== The village was first mentioned in the scribe book of the Korelsky uyezd (Vodskaya Pyatina) Dmitry Kitaev 1500: «the village of Gelyulya on the river on Gelyulya». In 1641, when this territory was under the control of Sweden, the first Christian church was built in Khelyulya (burned down already in 1657).
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