Povenets
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Povenets (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the shore of Lake Onega, Script error: No such module "convert". north of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,209.[1]
History
Povenets is located Script error: No such module "convert". from Sandarmokh, the site of mass execution by shooting and burial of victims of the Soviet political repressions.
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Povenets marked the furthest advance by Finnish troops during the World War II Continuation war 1941-44. The town was occupied by Finnish troops on 6 December 1941. Soviet forces retook the town in July 1944.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Povenets is subordinated to Medvezhyegorsky District.[2] As a municipal division, Povenets, together with seventeen rural localities, is incorporated within Medvezhyegorsky Municipal District[3] as Povenetskoye Urban Settlement.[4]
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Notes
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Lang". (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO). Code 86 224 560, as amended by the Amendment #278/2015 of January 1, 2016. ).
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- ↑ Law #813-ZRK
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