Povenets
Sign in to savePovenets (; ; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the shore of Lake Onega, north of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,209.
Key facts
- Russian urban type settlement.en_name
- Povenets
- Russian urban type settlement.ru_name
- Повенец
- Russian urban type settlement.other_name
- Poventsa
- Russian urban type settlement.other_lang
- Karelian
- Russian urban type settlement.image_skyline
- Поселок повенец деревенская часть.jpg
- Russian urban type settlement.image_caption
- A street in Povenets
- Russian urban type settlement.map_label_position
- top
- Russian urban type settlement.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Povenets.svg
- Russian urban type settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Povenetckoe (Karelia).png
- Russian urban type settlement.federal_subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Russian urban type settlement.adm_district_jur
- Medvezhyegorsky District
- Russian urban type settlement.inhabloc_cat
- Urban-type settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.mun_district_jur
- Medvezhyegorsky Municipal District
- Russian urban type settlement.urban_settlement_jur
- Povenetskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.mun_admctr_of
- Povenetskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian urban type settlement.pop_2010census
- 2209
- Russian urban type settlement.current_cat_date
- 1938
- Russian urban type settlement.postal_codes
- 186326
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Povenets (; ; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the shore of Lake Onega, north of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,209.
==History== Povenets is located from Sandarmokh, the site of mass execution by shooting and burial of victims of the Soviet political repressions.
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