Impilahti
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Impilahti (; ; ) is a rural locality in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga near the Finnish border, about west of Petrozavodsk, the capital city of the Republic of Karelia. The nearest town is Sortavala, which is located about west of Sortavala. Before World War II, the area belonged to Finland, after which it became part of the Soviet Union.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Impilahti
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Импила́хти
- Russian inhabited locality.other_name
- Imbilahti
- Russian inhabited locality.other_lang
- Karelian
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Импилахти сверху (1).jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- An aerial view of Impilahti in 2020.
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Impilahtinskoe selo coa.gif
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Pitkyarantsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1638
- Russian inhabited locality.established_title
- Charter
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Impilahti (; ; ) is a rural locality in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga near the Finnish border, about west of Petrozavodsk, the capital city of the Republic of Karelia. The nearest town is Sortavala, which is located about west of Sortavala. Before World War II, the area belonged to Finland, after which it became part of the Soviet Union.
In 2012 the population of Impilahti was about one thousand. According to the 2010 census, 74% of the population are Russian, 9% Belarusian, 7% Karelian, 3% Ukrainian and 2% Finnish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Impilahti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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