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Historical Karelia (Russia) Karelia is the area between Finland and Russia. However, autonomous East Karelia [both current and soviet] is just a small part of Russian Karelia, known as White Sea Karelia, or in other words, the area between the White Sea and the Finnish border. According to the present constitution, Russian is the only official language in the Republic of Karelia despite the efforts of the ethnic Karelians (ca 10% of population) to have their language made co-official. www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-10h.html   (976 words)

Karelia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karelia is the land of the Karelian and Finnish peoples and is a vast inhabited area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden. Karelia streches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland. Tver Karelia denotes the villages in the Tver Oblast that are inhabited by Karelians. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karelia   (958 words)

Many Karelias — Virtual Finland The predominantly agricultural and forestry-based economy of North Karelia went through dramatic restructuring in the 1960s and 1970s in particular, and the region suffered a considerable drain of population to the urban centres in the south of the country and across the Gulf of Bothnia in Sweden. Karelian settlement in pre-revolutionary Russian Karelia was divided between the provinces of Archangel in the north and Olonets in the south. Russian President Boris Yeltsin nevertheless commented at a meeting with Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari in Moscow in 1994 that the seizure of these areas of Finnish territory was an example of Stalin’s totalitarian and aggressive politics, and as such was unacceptable. virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/karjala.html   (3285 words)

Finnish Karelia information - Search.com Most of Finnish Karelia was ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union in 1940, after the Winter War, and today is divided between the Russian autonomous Republic of Karelia and the Russian Leningrad Oblast. Western Karelia, as an historical Province of Sweden, was religiously and politically distinct from the eastern parts that were under the Russian Orthodox Church. The traditional culture of "Ladoga-Karelia", or Finnish Karelia according to the pre-Winter War borders, was by and large similar to that of Eastern Karelia, or Russian Karelia. www.search.com /reference/Finnish_Karelia   (769 words)

Democratisation of the media in the Republic of Karelia / 1999/3 / Archive / Media Development / Publications / Home - ... Karelia is closer to the liberal model of regional press and the situation in other regions may vary significantly. Approximately 75% of the population are Russian and the local ethnic minorities consist of Karelians (10 %), Finns (2 %) and Veps. This was especially visible in the Russian presidential elections of 1996 and the elections for the Karelian president in 1998. www.wacc.org.uk /wacc/publications/media_development/archive/1999_3/democratisation_of_the_media_in_the_republic_of_karelia   (2831 words)

Wikinfo | Karelia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Karelia, Karjala (in Finnish) or Karelen (in Swedish), is a historical province in eastern Finland. Present-day Finnish Karelia is divided upon the administrative provinces of Eastern Finland (Northern Karelia) and Southern Finland (Southern Karelia). The traditional culture of Ladoga-Karelia, or Finnish Karelia (according to the pre-Winter War borders), was by and large similar to that of East-Karelia, or Russian Karelia. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Karelia   (652 words)

Karelia — Infoplease.com Russians and Ukrainians constitute a majority of the population, the rest of which consists mainly of Karelians, Finns, and Lapps, who are very closely related and have an identical written language. Karelia, properly speaking the region N and E of Lake Onega, was conquered in the 12th–13th cent. Karelia reverted to the status of an autonomous republic in 1956. www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0827091.html   (543 words)

The Republic of Karelia - Regional Profile from the Russian American Chamber of Commerce®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Karelia, as a culturally original region of Northern Europe, appeared as a result of the interaction of the Baltic-Finnish and the Eastern Slavic cultures in the North. Karelia is often called "stone-lake-forest" land, emphasizing the main parts of the landscape, the unique combination created by the fantastically-shaped lakes separated by stony grounds covered with green taiga. Karelia contributes 9.9% of Russian iron-ore output, it produces 22.6% of paper, 9.4% of pulp, 3.7% of timber, 3.1% of wood-fiber boards, 2.7% of dimension lumber, about 80% of paper bags. www.russianamericanchamber.org /regions/Karelia.html   (2494 words)

Republic of Karelia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Regions of North and South Karelia lie in Finland and the Karelian Republic in Russia. Historically Karelia was a region to the northwest of Russia, east of present-day Finland, controlled by the Novgorod Republic. The Constitution of the Republic of Karelia was adopted on February 12, 2001. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_Karelia   (872 words)

Russian Northern Republics, Russia and Northern Republics on RussiansAbroad.com Karelia and Komi, the two northernmost republics of European Russia, occupy a sizable portion of the latitudes north of Moscow. At 172,400 square kilometers, Karelia is the fourth largest of the autonomous republics of the Russian Federation. When Western Karelia was gained from the Finns in 1940, the enlarged Karelia became a full republic of the Soviet Union, called the Karelo-Finnish Republic. www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_119.html   (553 words)

The Karelia Question: Will Russia give it back to Finland? Karelia was a priceless jewel - a land of myth and history; together with Eastern Karelia, it is the source of Finland's national epic, Kalevala. The Russians had converted most of the Eastern Karelians to Orthodoxy in order to tie them permanently to Moscow, and in the beginning of the 17th Century, they convinced their Orthodox Karelian brethren to move Eastward to protect them from the Lutheran faith. The statement was not official Russian policy, but Vladimir Ahrameiko, the mayor of Kantalahti, surprised everyone with the admission of Russian wrongdoing, for the "sorrow and pain" of the Russian attack on Finland in 1939. peacecountry0.tripod.com /finnliv6.htm   (2162 words)

Wikinfo | Karelians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The dialect spoken is the South Karelian Region of Finland is considered to be part of the South Eastern dialects of the Finnish language. [2] The dialect that is spoken in North Karelia is considered to be one of the Savonian dialects. Karelian culture and language was a major inspiration for the Fennoman movement, and the unification of East Karelia (under Russian sovereignty) with independent Finland was a major political issue in 20th century Finland. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Karelians   (633 words)

HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TURAN - KARELIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) In the Scandinavian sources the name Karelia has occurred since the 8th century; the Karelians were first mentioned in the Russian sources in 1143. The Karelian Labour Commune was formed in 1920, with Finnish as the language of administration and education, in accordance with the Tartu peace agreement. Based on the census of 1989, 47.9% of the Karelians in the Soviet Union indicated their mother tongue to be Karelian, 45.5% Russian, and 6.6% some other language; in the whole Russian Federation the numbers were 48.6%, 46.3%, and 5.1%, respectively. www.hunmagyar.org /turan/karelia/karelia.html   (916 words)

East Karelia, 1918-1922 However, autonomous East Karelia is just a small part of Russian Karelia, known as White Sea Karelia, or in other words, the area between the White Sea and the Finnish border. The area to the south of White Sea Karelia, between lakes Onega and Lagoda, is known as Aunus Karelia, named after the town with the Finnish name Aunus (in Russian: Olonets). However, the red Russian forces took the East Karelian territory in the early summer of 1920 and the at the end of June the East Karelian government fled to Finland. www.atlasgeo.net /fotw/flags/ru-12h.html   (1092 words)

Karelian Bear Dogs; Karelia; Karelian people Karelians lived scattered across a broad area, stretching from the southeast corner of present-day Finland eastwards to the Karelian isthmus, and in the north from the northern edge of Lake Ladoga to Lake Onega and on to the shores of the White Sea. The Russians prevailed in 1809, and Sweden ceded the eastern third of Sweden. Karelia experienced rapid industrialization, but hostilities did not cease until two more wars were fought, now between Finland and the Soviet Union. www.karelianbeardog.us /kbdbreed_people.html   (506 words)

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Window on Eurasia: Russians Say They're Victims of Ethnic Discrimination in Karelia Vienna, June 23 - Russians are victims of ethnic discrimination in Karelia, the result of the continuing application of what one Russian writer there says was the mistaken Soviet approach of promoting the national consciousness of small groups to the detriment of the ethnic Russian majority. In a lengthy essay posted on the Russkaya liniya website, Grigoriy Saltun, a Russian writer who lives in the Karelian capital of Petrozavodsk, argues that "discrimination against the Russian people is being imposed by the authorities [there] in all spheres of cultural life" (http://www.rusk.ru/php?idar=104393). His remarks were prompted by a new book by S.I. Kochkurkina entitled "The Peoples of Karelia" (in Russian, Petrozavodsk, 2005) that traces the history and culture of groups like the Karels, Veps, Saami, and Russians from the time of their first settlement in Karelia until the 17th century. www.fsumonitor.com /stories/062306Russia.shtml   (959 words)

The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire The Karelians of Karelia live chiefly west of the St. Petersburg-Murmansk railway line in the Karelian ASSR and their administrative centre is Petrozavodsk or Petroskoi. From the 9th to the 12th centuries the southern part of Karelia was under the control of the Kievan Rus principality. The written language in the Karelian ASSR was Russian or Finnish, and Russian in Tver and elsewhere in Russia. www.eki.ee /books/redbook/karelians.shtml   (2193 words)

Finnish-Americans in the Soviet Union In 1933, a plenum of the Central Committee in Karelia decreed that local nationalism was the greatest danger in the republic. Russian grammatical endings were used for the words, and the language was written in Cyrillic script. As adopted Russians, we American Finns shared that fear.”[118] The optimism that the Finnish-American immigrants had once had for their adopted homeland was largely erased as they experienced the realities of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. www.sras.org /news2.phtml?m=475   (6782 words)

Finnish Karelia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Most of Finnish Karelia was ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union in 1940, after the Winter War, and today is divided between the Russian autonomous Republic of Karelia and the Russian Leningrad Oblast. Western Karelia, as an historical Province of Sweden, was religiously and politically distinct from the eastern parts that were under the Russian Orthodox Church. The traditional culture of "Ladoga-Karelia", or Finnish Karelia according to the pre-Winter War borders, was by and large similar to that of Eastern Karelia, or Russian Karelia. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_Karelia   (774 words)

Mauri Rastas: "History of Karelia" The period of prosperity of Ancient, un-devided Karelia began in 10th century, was culminated in 1100-1200 and declined at the beginning of 14th century. Karelia was too weak to resist this new mighty god, meaning a beginning of the nation's rupture. Finland was occupied by the Russian in 1713-1721. www.kolumbus.fi /rastas/eng_carel.html   (2858 words)

Karelia and the Russian part of Barents Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) The island of Kizhi on Onega Lake (Karelia). The park occupies 500,000 hectares shared by two regions of Russia: the Republic of Karelia and the Arkhangelsk region. The Vodl Lake is situated 50 km to the east from the Onega Lake. www.cs.toronto.edu /~mes/russia/sev-zap/karelia.html   (302 words)

Russian tours, Russia River Cruises, River Cruise to Kizhi and Karelia - The Russian North The tour continues on to Petrozavodsk (Peter´s Factory) the capital of the Russian North and of Karelia. Svirstroi: This is an authentic Russian village, situated on the river Svir, connecting the largest European lakes (Ladoga and Onega). At present, Petrozavodsk (Peter?s Factory) is the capital of Karelia and the industrial, cultural and scientific center of the northwestern region. www.expresstorussia.com /tour_27/river_cruises_russia.html   (1672 words)

Superstitions about the Spindle in Russian Karelia She lives in the famous open air museum Kizhi in Karelia in a traditional Russian timber house. There is also a custom in Karelia when a baby reaches the age of 6 months the mother makes a special ritual "banya" (sauna) for him. When people prepare the sauna for the baby they put a spindle into the stove together with firewood, that is because 6 month is the age when baby usually gets the first tooth, and that means own soul. www.forntidateknik.z.se /IFT/litte/spindlekarel.htm   (955 words)

Northern European Lake Survey, 1995: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russian Kola, Russian Karelia, Scotland and Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) Denmark, Russian Kola, Russian Karelia, Scotland and Wales Subsequently, the project was expanded to include Denmark, Russian Kola, Russian Karelia, Scotland and Wales. In Russian Kola, Sweden and Finland 17%, and 9%, respectively, of the lakes are exceeded. www.ambio.kva.se /1998/Nr2_98/mar98_1.html   (505 words)

Sahlbergia – Abstract of volume 5 – FMNH The purpose of excursion was to demonstrate to forestry students the importance of coarse woody debris and forest structure on insect biodiversity. The results indicate that especially those species, which depend on coarse woody debris are still relatively common in Russian Karelia where forest management has not been as effective as in Finnish forests. In July 1999, a nymph of the species was collected from the river Lieksanjoki in the biological province of Karelia borealis, eastern Finland. www.fmnh.helsinki.fi /english/publications/sahlbergia/abstracts/vol05.htm   (1156 words)

Karelia (Russia) According to the present constitution, Russian is the only official language in the Republic of Karelia despite the efforts of the ethnic Karelians (ca. In some Russian Federation subjects there are symbols combining symbolic of the arms and flag, but documents regulating their use are not known. Such is a flag in the study of the president of Karelia. flagspot.net /flags/ru-10.html   (695 words)

GIS/EM4 - Boreal forest land-use monitoring and modeling The study area examined is a central border region between Finland and Russia in the proximity of Kostamus in the Russian Republic of Karelia. In particular, we are interested in exploring the potential effects of various levels and types of timber harvesting and the influence of proposed protected areas on the overall forest age and species distributions, and indirectly on biodiversity. The abundance of large areas of relatively intact old-growth forests in Russian Karelia adjacent to an area of intense management on the Finnish side provides a unique reference area for landscape ecological planning investigations. www.colorado.edu /research/cires/banff/pubpapers/32   (5282 words)

Promoting Veps' Culture in Karelia The Veps are a Finno-Ugric minority, settled mainly on the southern coast of the Onega lake. As a result the areas historically inhabited by the Veps came to be divided between South-East Karelia, the north-eastern part of Leningrad oblast and the north-western part of the Vologda oblast. With a decree (No. 985, December 2, 1996) of the president of Karelia the Vepsian Volost was granted the full status of an administrative unit of the Republic, consisting of 14 villages with a total population of about 3600 individuals, of whom Veps account for 42%. www.cemes.org /current/LGI/158-eng.htm   (1299 words)

International Institute for Strategic Studies - Euregio Karelia: A Model for Cross-Border Cooperation with Russia? Euregio Karelia, established in February 2000, is the only application of the Euroregion concept on the border between the EU and the Russian Federation. The Euregio Karelia is a joint initiative of three Finnish border counties and, on the Russian side, the Karelian Republic. The benefits were thus: for the EU, the coordination of aid programmes; for Russian Karelia, economic progress; and for Finland stability and the removal of historical burdens. www.iiss.org /index.asp?pgid=3357&fs=s   (2023 words)

Nordic Travel. Travel to Russia :: Karelia Karelia is a region in the Russian Northwest. Karelia attracts travellers with its unique, exclusive sights, rich cultural and historical heritage, traditional old wooden villages and rural life, beautiful nature with good opportunities for adventure-lovers, rare birds and animals. Karelia deserves a separate visit but even a short 2-3-day tour will add a flavour into the exploration of Russia. nordictravel.ru   (134 words)

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