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Segezha
Sign in to saveSegezha (; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located north of Petrozavodsk on the and on the western shore of Lake Vygozero. Population:
Key facts
- Russian town.en_name
- Segezha
- Russian town.ru_name
- Сегежа
- Russian town.other_name
- Segeža
- Russian town.other_lang
- Karelian
- Russian town.image_skyline
- Сегежа вокзал.jpg
- Russian town.image_caption
- Segezha railway station
- Russian town.map_label_position
- right
- Russian town.image_flag
- Flag of Segezha.svg
- Russian town.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Segezha.svg
- Russian town.federal_subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Russian town.adm_district_jur
- Segezhsky District
- Russian town.adm_ctr_of
- Segezhsky District
- Russian town.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian town.mun_district_jur
- Segezhsky Municipal District
- Russian town.urban_settlement_jur
- Segezhskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of1
- Segezhsky Municipal District
- Russian town.mun_admctr_of2
- Segezhskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian town.pop_2010census
- 29631
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Segezha (; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located north of Petrozavodsk on the and on the western shore of Lake Vygozero. Population:
==History== The town was founded as a railway station on Murmansk Railway in 1915. A small settlement grew around the station; it was granted town status in 1943. The area around Segezha held many of the early camps within the Soviet gulag system and was known as Segezhlag.
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