Rugozero
Sign in to savethumb|right|Location of Rukajärvi in the Muyezersky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. thumb|right|A wooden house in Rukajärvi in 1920. Rukajärvi (Karelian: Rugarvi, Russian: Ру́гозеро, Rugozero; ) is a rural municipality and its central village in the Muyezersky District in the Republic of Karelia in Russia. It is located on the eastern shore of Lake Rukajärvi, 84 km northeast of Muyezersky (Mujejärvi). The population of the village is 753 and that of the municipality is 909 (as of 2012).
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Geography and population
- History
- Rukajärvi in the Continuation War
- After the war
- Traffic, economy and services
- Attractions and tourism
- Sources
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|Location of Rukajärvi in the Muyezersky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. thumb|right|A wooden house in Rukajärvi in 1920. Rukajärvi (Karelian: Rugarvi, Russian: Ру́гозеро, Rugozero; ) is a rural municipality and its central village in the Muyezersky District in the Republic of Karelia in Russia. It is located on the eastern shore of Lake Rukajärvi, 84 km northeast of Muyezersky (Mujejärvi). The population of the village is 753 and that of the municipality is 909 (as of 2012).
==Geography and population== The area of the Rukajärvi municipality is 3990 square kilometres. It is bordered to the northeast by Sosnavitsa in the Belomorsky District, to the east by Mustakoski in the Segezhsky District, to the south by Paatene in the Medvezhyegorsky District, to the south by Mujejärvi and to the northwest by Ledmozero in the Muyzezersky District. Most of the area is forest and lakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rugozero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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