Belomorsk

Belomorsk (; ; formerly ) is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea. Population:

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Belomorsk
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Беломорск
Russian inhabited locality.other_name: Šuomua
Russian inhabited locality.other_lang: Karelian
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: Улица Пашкова.jpg
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: Pashkova Street in Belomorsk
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: right
Russian inhabited locality.image_flag: Flag of Belomorsk.png
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Belomorsk COA (2019).jpg
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Republic of Karelia
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Belomorsky District

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Belomorsk (; ; formerly ) is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea. Population:

==History== In the beginning it was a small village named Soroka (), or Sorotskaya () in the official Russian Imperial statistics. On September 11, 1938, Soroka and several nearby localities were merged to form the town of Belomorsk. In 1941–1944, during World War II, it served as the temporary capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.