Segezha
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Segezha (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a town and the administrative center of Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located Script error: No such module "convert". north of Petrozavodsk on the Segezha River and on the western shore of Lake Vygozero. Population: Template:Ru-census2010 Template:Replace (2002 Census);[1] Template:Replace (1989 Soviet census).[2]
History
The town was founded as a railway station on Murmansk Railway in 1915.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". A small settlement grew around the station; it was granted town status in 1943.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The area around Segezha held many of the early camps within the Soviet gulag system and was known as Segezhlag.[3]
Segezha is still where Penal Colony 7 is located (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".). In June 2011, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was moved here to serve his sentence.[4] Russian activist Ildar Dadin writes that he was tortured in this prison in September 2016.[5]
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Segezha serves as the administrative center of Segezhsky District, to which it is directly subordinated.[6] As a municipal division, the town of Segezha is incorporated within Segezhsky Municipal District as Segezhskoye Urban Settlement.[7]
Economy
Segezha is the location of the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill, one of the largest pulp and paper companies in Russia.
References
Notes
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- ↑ Ildar Dadin: deadly torture in Karelian prison The Independent Barents Observer AS, 2016
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Sources
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia. Law #871-ZRK of April 29, 2005 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Republic of Karelia, as amended by the Law #1895-ZRK of June 2, 2015 On Amending Article 9 of the Law of the Republic of Karelia "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Republic of Karelia". Effective as of the official publication date.).
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