Porosozero
Sign in to savethumb|Reboly (Repola) and Porosozero (Porajärvi) in 1920. The border between Finland and Soviet Union after 1940 is also shown. Porosozero (; ; ) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Suoyarvsky District of the Republic of Karelia, located along the Suna River. Municipally, it is a part and the administrative center of Porosozerskoye Rural Settlement of Suoyarvsky Municipal District. Population: 3,529 (2002 Census); 4,406 (1989 Census).
Key facts
- Russian rural locality.en_name
- Porosozero
- Russian rural locality.ru_name
- Поросозеро
- Russian rural locality.other_name
- Porajärvi
- Russian rural locality.other_lang
- Finnish
- Russian rural locality.image_caption
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- Russian rural locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian rural locality.federal_subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Russian rural locality.adm_district_jur
- Suoyarvsky District
- Russian rural locality.inhabloc_cat
- Rural locality
- Russian rural locality.inhabloc_type
- Settlement
- Russian rural locality.mun_district_jur
- Suoyarvsky Municipal District
- Russian rural locality.rural_settlement_jur
- Porosozerskoye Rural Settlement
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Porajärvi
- Country
- Russia
- Population
- 2647
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- native label
- Porajärvi
- postal code
- 186855
- Commons category
- Porosozero
- time of earliest written record
- 1600-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|Reboly (Repola) and Porosozero (Porajärvi) in 1920. The border between Finland and Soviet Union after 1940 is also shown. Porosozero (; ; ) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Suoyarvsky District of the Republic of Karelia, located along the Suna River. Municipally, it is a part and the administrative center of Porosozerskoye Rural Settlement of Suoyarvsky Municipal District. Population: 3,529 (2002 Census); 4,406 (1989 Census).
Before 1920 it was a municipality in the Ladoga Karelia by the Finnish border. The main source of livelihood is the forest industry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porosozero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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