Värtsilä ( Fin. Värtsilä ) is an urban-type settlement within the Sortavala region of the Republic of Karelia , the administrative center and the only settlement of Värtsilä urban settlement .
| Settlement | |||
| Vyartsilya | |||
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| A country |  Russia | ||
| Subject of the federation | Republic of Karelia | ||
| Municipal District | Sortavala | ||
| Urban settlement | Wärtsilskoe | ||
| Chapter | Yashenkov Vladimir Alexandrovich [1] | ||
| History and Geography | |||
| Based | 1499 | ||
| First mention | 1499 | ||
| PGT with | 1946 | ||
| Center height | 101 m | ||
| Timezone | UTC + 3 | ||
| Population | |||
| Population | ↘ 2941 [2] people ( 2018 ) | ||
| Digital identifiers | |||
| Telephone code | +7 81430 | ||
| Postcode | 186757 | ||
| OKATO Code | 86410560 | ||
| OKTMO Code | |||
| Other | |||
| Village Day | September 24th | ||
| admvgp.ru | |||
Geography
Located on the Yuuvanjoki River, 5 km from the border with Finland , 65 km from Sortavala .
The railway station and the Värtsilä-Niirala large checkpoint on the Russian-Finnish border (it passes about 1 million people annually [3] ).
- Climate
The climate is mild: summers are moderately warm (average summer months temperature + 13 °), winters are moderately mild (average February temperatures −8.6 °), however, in some years temperatures up to + 30 ° in summer and up to −40 ° in winter can be recorded; precipitation up to 600 mm per year.
| The average daily temperature in Vyartsilya | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | But I | Dec | |
| −7 ° C | −6 ° C | 0 ° C | 7 ° C | 16 ° C | 18 ° C | 23 ° C | 19 ° C | 13 ° C | 6 ° C | 1 ° C | −5 ° C | |
History
An ancient settlement existed in the area of the current village as early as the 1st millennium BC (its traces were found in 1935 by the Finnish archaeologist Sakari Pälsi .
Vyartsilya was first mentioned in salary books from 1499-1500, the village then had three yards and was part of the Vodskaya Pyatina Novgorod land .
In 1617, under the Stolbov Treaty, the territory on which Vyartsilya was located was transferred to Sweden by Russia.
As a result of the Northern War, the village became part of the Principality of the Finnish Russian Empire . In 1834, a small sawmill was built. In 1851, a metallurgical plant was built in Värtsilä at the site of the sawmill for the remelting of lake and marsh iron ore (it still works today, but iron and steel are no longer smelted ). From the creation of these enterprises, the Finnish engineering company Wärtsilä leads its history [4] .
Since 1918 - as part of independent Finland .
During the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, the village was badly damaged.
Vyartsilya became part of the Karelian-Finnish SSR of the USSR under the terms of the Moscow Treaty of 1940 .
The status of an urban-type settlement has been since 1946 .
Population
| Population | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 [5] | 1970 [6] | 1979 [7] | 1989 [8] | 2002 [9] | 2009 [10] |
| 3794 | ↗ 3860 | ↘ 2935 | ↘ 2915 | ↗ 3230 | ↘ 3031 |
| 2010 [11] | 2012 [12] | 2013 [13] | 2014 [14] | 2015 [15] | 2016 [16] |
| ↗ 3080 | ↘ 3077 | ↘ 3035 | ↘ 3013 | ↘ 2964 | ↗ 2982 |
| 2017 [17] | 2018 [2] | ||||
| ↘ 2970 | ↘ 2941 | ||||
Economics
By the order of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 29, 2014 No. 1398-r (as amended on November 24, 2015) “On the approval of the list of single-industry towns”, it was included in the list of single -industry municipalities of the Russian Federation that have risks of worsening socio-economic conditions. [18]
The town-forming enterprise of the village is the Wärtsilsky hardware plant for the production of metal products (hardware): wire, nails, metal mesh. Also in the village is a woodworking plant (sawmill).
For tourists there is a hotel and a club-hotel.
Transport
Vyartsilya has regular bus services to the cities of Sortavala and Petrozavodsk .
Five kilometers from the village is the Vyartsilya railway station of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. The station is open only for freight work [19] . There has been no passenger railway connection from Vyartsilya since 1939 . (In Soviet times there was passenger traffic, a train with two cars went daily to Matkaselka station, coordinated with the arrival of the Leningrad - Petrozavodsk and Petrozavodsk-Leningrad trains. Train traffic stopped in early 2000)
December 28, 2012 the first test trip on the international railway route " Petrozavodsk - Sortavala - Joensuu " [20] . The train passes through the Värtsilä border checkpoint, which, however, is not yet ready to receive trains: the necessary infrastructure has yet to be created. [21]
Attractions
- The railway station is an architectural monument of the late 19th century.
- Mass grave of Soviet soldiers who died in July 1941 during the defensive battles of the Soviet-Finnish War (1941-1944) [22]
- A memorial sign on the site of the former village church and the graves of Finnish soldiers who died during the wars of 1918 , 1939-40 and 1941-44 .
- Monument to V. I. Lenin (located at the entrance to the main entrance of the Vyartsilsky Hardware Plant )
- Monument to Niels-Ludwig Arpp , founder of VMZ (located opposite the VGP Administration)
- Monument to Russian and Finnish mothers (standing on a mass grave, opposite the post office) (this monument was erected in the first half of the 70s, so initially it could not be dedicated to Soviet and Finnish mothers. This is a later interpretation of this monument)
- Orthodox Church of Alexander Nevsky [23]
People Associated with the Village
- Belyatsky, Alexander Viktorovich (b. 1962, Vyartsilya) - Belarusian human rights activist, deputy chairman of the International Federation of Human Rights
Streets of Wärtsilä
- Antikainen St.
- Hospital Street
- Country street
- Dzerzhinsky St.
- Factory Street
- Zagorodnaya Str.
- Zarechnaya St.
- Engineering Street
- Komsomolskaya St.
- Krasnoarmeyskaya st.
- Kuibyshev St.
- Lenin st.
- Forest Street
- Lugovaya St.
- Metallurgists st.
- Mira Street
- Embankment st.
- New st.
- Oktyabrskaya St.
- Field Street
- Soviet street
- Builders st.
- Central Street
other
See also
- Blue road - tourist route (Norway-Sweden-Finland-Russia)
Notes
- ↑ Karelia official
- ↑ 1 2 Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2018 . Date of treatment July 25, 2018. Archived July 26, 2018.
- ↑ Benjamin Yashin . Vyartsilya works around the clock Archived copy of December 20, 2014 on the Wayback Machine // Economics and Time, No. 35 (572), 09/19/2005
- ↑ The history of Wärtsilä 1834-1990
- ↑ 1959 All-Union Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ 1970 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ 1979 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
- ↑ 1989 All-Union Population Census. The urban population . Archived on August 22, 2011.
- ↑ 2002 All-Russian Population Census. Tom. 1, table 4. The population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, regions, urban settlements, rural settlements - district centers and rural settlements with a population of 3 thousand or more . Archived February 3, 2012.
- ↑ The number of permanent population of the Russian Federation by cities, urban-type settlements and districts as of January 1, 2009 . Date of treatment January 2, 2014. Archived January 2, 2014.
- ↑ 2010 All-Russian Population Census. The number and composition of the population of the Republic of Karelia
- ↑ Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities. Table 35. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2012 . Date of treatment May 31, 2014. Archived May 31, 2014.
- ↑ The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service of Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. The population of urban districts, municipalities, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements) . Date of treatment November 16, 2013. Archived November 16, 2013.
- ↑ Table 33. The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2014 . Date of treatment August 2, 2014. Archived on August 2, 2014.
- ↑ The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2015 . Date of treatment August 6, 2015. Archived on August 6, 2015.
- ↑ Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2016
- ↑ The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2017 (July 31, 2017). Date of treatment July 31, 2017. Archived July 31, 2017.
- ↑ Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 29, 2014 N 1398-r “On approval of the list of single-industry towns”
- ↑ Stations Directory - Vyartsilya
- ↑ Meeting of the leaders of Russian Railways, VR-Group, the Republic of Karelia and municipalities of several cities in Finland
- ↑ A test train from Petrozavodsk to Joensuu will leave on December 28. October 12, 2012 Archived October 14, 2012 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Mass grave of Soviet soldiers
- ↑ Church of Alexander Nevsky
Literature
- Karelia: encyclopedia: in 3 tons / hl. ed. A.F. Titov. T. 1: A - J. - Petrozavodsk: Publishing House PetroPress, 2007. - P. 238-400 pp., Ill., Maps. ISBN 978-5-8430-0123-0 (t. 1)