Vyartsilya
Also known as Värtsilä
Vyartsilya (; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located near the border with Finland, west of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 3,080.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Vyartsilskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 3080
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Vyartsilya
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Вяртсиля
- Russian inhabited locality.other_lang
- Karelian
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Republic of Karelia
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur
- town of republic significance of Sortavala
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Urban-type settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Sortavalsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Vyartsilskoye Urban Settlement
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Vyartsilya (; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located near the border with Finland, west of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 3,080.
==History== An ancient settlement existed in the area of the present settlement as early as the first millennium BC. Its traces were found in 1935 by the Finnish archaeologist Sakari Pälsi.
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