Veshkelitsa ( Karelian Veškelüs [2] ) is an old Karelian village , the administrative center of the Veshkel rural village of Suojärvi district of the Republic of Karelia .
| Village | |
| Veshkelitsa | |
|---|---|
| Karelian. Veškelüs | |
 | |
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Republic of Karelia |
| Municipal District | Suojärvi |
| Rural settlement | Veshkel |
| Chapter | Malakhovskaya Irina Vasilievna |
| History and Geography | |
| Based | XVII century |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | ↗ 529 [1] people ( 2013 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +7 81457 |
| Postcode | 186877 |
| OKATO Code | 86250000004 |
| OKTMO Code | |
| Site of Veshkelitsa village | |
Content
General information
It is located 100 km from the republic’s capital Petrozavodsk on the shores of seven small lakes - Kirikiyarvi, Matkayarvi, Koverajarvi and others. The terrain is very rugged, with steep coastal slopes and hills with a significant elevation difference.
The highway Petrozavodsk-Suojärvi runs through the village.
The village is a group system of settlements, which in the past consisted of small-peasant settlements located on the hills of present-day Veshkelitsa - Kirikkemyagi, Pappila, Padagya, McCoyle, Vatcheil, Nikkoyl, Pedri, Khoshkoil.
The village has a secondary school, a kindergarten, an orphanage for orphans, a first-aid post, a post office, shops, a House of Culture, a library and a museum of village history. The ethnocultural center "Veshkelyus" [3] operates.
History
On October 20, 1935, by a resolution of the Karelian Central Executive Committee , the church was closed in the village [4] .
In 1989, a wooden chapel in honor of George the Victorious [5] , a regional architectural monument of the 16th – 17th centuries, was transported and installed from the village of Kangozero to Veshkelitsa. at. [6] .
In the village there is a regional historical monument - the Mass grave of Soviet soldiers who died during the Soviet-Finnish War (1941-1944) .
Population
| Population | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2009 [7] | 2010 [8] | 2013 [1] |
| 630 | ↘ 508 | ↗ 529 |
Streets of Veshkelitsi
- Gagarina St.
- Mountainous street
- Zaozernaya st.
- Kalinina St.
- Rocky Street
- Komsomolskaya St.
- Forest Street
- Mira Street
- Oktyabrskaya St.
- Victory st.
- Soviet street
- School Street
- Stoykina St.
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.
- ↑ Republic of Karelia. List of names of settlements in Russian, Karelian and Vepsian languages (in places of compact residence of Karelians and Vepsians). - Petrozavodsk: Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2006 .-- S. 15 - 24 p.
- ↑ Ethnocultural center “Veshkelyus”
- ↑ B. F. Detchuev, V. G. Makurov. State-church relations in Karelia (1917-1990). - Petrozavodsk: SDV-Optima, 1999 .-- 206 p. - ISBN 5-201-07841-9 .
- ↑ Chapel of St. George
- ↑ Objects of the historical and cultural heritage of Karelia Archival copy of October 17, 2013 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 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
- The illustrated encyclopedic dictionary of the Veshkel rural settlement of the Suojärvi district of the Republic of Karelia / Karel. region. societies. org ethnocultures. traditions of the Karelians "Homeland"; [author-comp .: L.P. Vorobyov et al.]. - Petrozavodsk: Verso, 2012. - 31, [1] p .: ill., Maps, portr.