Kolezhma is an ancient Pomeranian village in the Belomorsky district of the Republic of Karelia .
| Village | |
| Kolezhma | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Republic of Karelia |
| Municipal District | Belomorsky |
| Rural settlement | Sumposad |
| History and Geography | |
| First mention | 1548 year |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | ↘ 157 [1] people ( 2013 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +7 81437 |
| Postcode | 186522 |
| OKATO Code | 86204833003 |
| OKTMO Code | |
Content
- 1 General
- 2 History
- 3 Transport
- 4 Monuments of history
- 5 population
- 6 notes
- 7 Literature
- 8 References
General information
The village is located at the mouth of the Kolezhma River on the banks of the Onega Bay of the White Sea , 30 kilometers east of Sumy Posad . South of the village, 79 kilometers east of the city of Belomorsk , is the Kolezhma station.
Fishing has been the main occupation of the local population since the founding of the village. There is a small fishing port in Kolezhma. In Soviet times, the “Dawn of the North” fishing collective farm , organized in 1930, operated. The first chairman of the collective farm was Timofey Grigorievich Pakulin.
In the village there is a school, paramedic point.
History
The village arose in the 16th century [2] .
Near the village in the XVI-XVIII centuries there was an iron-making weapons factory of the Solovetsky Monastery - " Iron Desert ".
Kolezhma volost was located in the eastern part of the White Sea Karelia . The territory of the volost was limited: by the White Sea from the north, Nyukhchinsky volost from the east, Petrovsky-Yamsky volost from the south, Lapinsky and Sumpososad volosts from the west. The volost also included several small islands in the White Sea, such as Myagostrov. The volost included settlements: Kolezhma, Pertozero, Ruyga and Virandozero.
Kolezhma volost was abolished in the 1920s , and its territory became part of the new settlement council of the Soroksky district .
In the years 1931-1919, by the decisions of the Karelian Central Executive Committee , a chapel and a church were closed in Kolezhma [3] .
Transport
Dirt road Sumy posad - Kolezhma. There used to be a dirt road from Virandozero .
Monuments of history
The mass grave of the Soviet military pilots of the Karelian Front, who died during the Great Patriotic War, is preserved.
A bust of the Hero of Socialist Labor, a breeder Y. I. Yudin (1879-1954) was established [4]
Population
In 1907, the entire population of the volost was Russian and totaled 1034 people [5] .
In 1926, the population of the village council of Kolezhma totaled 1,168 people, of which 1,167 were Russians and one Karelian [6] .
In 1996, the village population numbered 260 people [7] , most of whom are descendants of Pomor .
| Population size | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2009 [8] | 2010 [9] | 2013 [1] |
| 220 | ↘ 165 | ↘ 157 |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Population by rural settlements of the Republic of Karelia as of January 1, 2013 . Date of treatment January 3, 2015. Archived January 3, 2015.
- ↑ White Sea
- ↑ B. F. Detchuev, V. G. Makurov. State-church relations in Karelia (1917-1990). - Petrozavodsk: SDV-Optima, 1999 .-- 206 p. - ISBN 5-201-07841-9 .
- ↑ Monuments of history and culture on the territory of the Belomorsky municipal district
- ↑ Homén, Theodor (toim.): Itä-Karjala ja Kuollan Lappi, s. 160. Helskinki: Otava, 1918. (Fin.)
- ↑ List of populated areas of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Based on materials from the 1926 census) (Fin.)
- ↑ Yrityspalvelu Karelski: Karjalan tasavalta vuonna 1997, s. 61. Jyväskylä: Yrityspalvelu Karelski, 1997. ISBN 952-90-8324-6 . (fin.)
- ↑ Recommended regulatory network and library service forms indicating the population as of January 1, 2009 according to Kareliastat . Date of treatment April 19, 2015. Archived on April 19, 2015.
- ↑ 2010 All-Russian Population Census. Rural settlements of the Republic of Karelia
Literature
- Karelia: encyclopedia: in 3 tons / hl. ed. A.F. Titov. T. 2: K - P. - Petrozavodsk: Publishing House PetroPress, 2009. P. 72 - 464 pp., Ill., Maps. ISBN 978-5-8430-0125-4 (t. 2)