Belomorsk is located in White Karelia. The city lies on the shores of
the White Sea, at the mouth of the Vyg River, at the point where the
White Sea-Baltic Canal enters the sea. Belomorsk is located 300 km north
of Petrozavodsk.
Sea port and transport railway junction.
The administrative center of the Belomorsky district of the republic.
Near the city, at the Shoiruksha waterfall, in the lower reaches of the Vyg River, petroglyphs have been preserved — rock carvings of people and animals, hunting scenes and others (about 2000 images in total) dating back to the VI—V millennia BC. The first of the groups of petroglyphs — "Demonic Footprints" — was first described in 1926 by Alexander Linevsky, later known as a science fiction writer.
The mass grave of Soviet soldiers in the park named after Hero of the
Soviet Union A. N. Pashkov. 527 soldiers and officers of the Karelian
Front who died during the Soviet-Finnish War (1941-1944) are buried in
the grave. Grave grave appeared in 1960 as a result of the reburial of
soldiers from single and group graves located in Belomorsk and its
environs. In August 1960, a 5-meter obelisk was installed.
Bust of
Hero of the Soviet Union A. N. Pashkov. It was installed in 1959. Bronze
bust by sculptor P. M. Krivorutsky.
Monument to S. M. Kirov.
Monument to the sailors of the dredger "Chernyshevsky".
White Sea Petroglyphs (The archaeological complex "White Sea Petroglyphs" includes drawings (carvings) on rocks and more than 30 discovered sites of ancient people dating back to the period of the 3rd - 2nd millennium BC). Located in the lower reaches of the Vyg River, 8 km above its confluence with the Soroka Bay of the White Sea
The Church of the Venerable Zosima, Savvati and Herman Solovetsky (ROC)
Belomorsk Museum of Local Lore.
By car
Follow the P21 (E105) “Kola” highway to Pushnoy, then take
the exit in an easterly direction and 39 km to the city.
Hotel "Gandvik" (formerly "Belomorsk"), Pervomaiskaya str., 18.
Hotel "Brandwakhta" (floating), Portovoye Shosse, 36.
It has been known since the 12th century as the village of Soroki at
the mouth of the Vyg River, at its confluence with the White Sea. The
name is based on one of the branches of the Vyga, which the Karelians
called Soarijoki — "island river" (Karelian soari — "island", joki —
"river"). Explanations of the toponym "Magpie" from the "forty islands"
or in connection with the habitat of the bird magpie belong to folk
etymology.
In 1938, the village of Soroki was renamed the city of
Belomorsk.
The city is located on the western shore of the White Sea, at the
mouth of the Vyg River, 376 km north of Petrozavodsk, near the
Solovetsky Islands.
Most of the city is located on the right bank
of the main Vyga bayou — on an island formed by the Shizhnya Bayou.
A railway junction, a seaport in the Sorok Bay of the White Sea. The
final destination of the White Sea-Baltic Canal.
The first written mention of a settlement on the Soroka River (Karel.
saari — "island", Karel. joki — "river"; "island river", the name of a
branch of the Vyg River) dates back to 1419.
It was from here
that the founders of the famous monastery, the elders Herman and
Savvati, went to Solovki in 1429.
Since 1551, the seaside village
of Sorotskaya, by decree of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, became the patrimony
of the Solovetsky Monastery.
In 1869, on the outskirts of the
village of Soroka, a large steam sawmill was built by the timber
industrialist M. P. Belyaev. By 1912, there were already three such
plants in operation.
In December 1915, the Sorokskaya junction
station of the Murmansk Railway was opened.
The commissioning of
the Belomorsko-Baltiysky Canal (BBK) in 1933 gave an additional impetus
to the development of industry in the settlements that later became part
of Belomorsk. During the construction of the BBK, Belbaltlag regime
facilities were located here, which formed the village of BBK Vodnikov.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated
September 11, 1938, the village of Soroka, the village of sawmills named
after V. P. Solunin on the right bank of the Vyg River, the village of
Vodnikov BBK and the village of the Sorokskaya railway station were
merged and received the status of a city and the name Belomorsk.
In 1938-1939, three churches were closed in Belomorsk by the decrees of
the Karelian Central Executive Committee.
During the
Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940) and World War II, Belomorsk was the
temporary capital of the Karelo-Finnish SSR. By the Directive of the
General Staff of the Supreme Command dated August 23, 1941 No. 001199
Belomorsk (Soroka) was determined to be the location of the headquarters
of the Karelian Front. The headquarters of the partisan movement under
the Military Council of the Karelian Front was located in Belomorsk.
On September 28, 1958, the monument to V. P. Solunin (1886-1919),
the first chairman of the Sorok Council of Workers, Soldiers and
Peasants Deputies (1917), was inaugurated.
There are several newspapers of different purposes in the city; the
main one is the Belomorskaya Tribune, published in Petrozavodsk. The
newspapers Soroka (monthly) and All about the Life of the district
(weekly) are also published.
The following television channels
operate in Belomorsk:
The first multiplex of digital terrestrial
television in Russia
The second multiplex of digital terrestrial
television in Russia
History
On January 1, 1967, the first
television program appeared in Belomorsk.
In Belomorsk there are:
Pomeranian Folk Choir (founded in 1937,
the founders are A. I. Egorshina, M. I. Galkevich);
Belomorsky
Regional Museum of Local Lore "Belomorsky petroglyphs" (founded in 1961,
founder — K. Y. Ignatiev);
Ethnocultural Center of Pomeranian
Culture;
Museum of the Karelian Front;
general secondary schools;
art and music schools;
English language school;
interscholastic
educational complex;
preschool institutions.
Belomorsk is 36 km from the E 105 M18 Kola highway (St. Petersburg -
Murmansk — Norway) and is connected to it by the P18 highway (Pushnoy —
Belomorsk). There is also a dirt highway Belomorsk — Sumy Posad —
Khvoiny — Virandozero — Nyukhcha, connecting the eastern settlements of
the district and Sumy Posad — Kolezhma.
Currently, buses run
regularly from the city on routes to the settlements of Zolotets,
Sosnovets, Shizhnya, Vodnikov, Tunguda, Khvoyny, Letnerechensky, as well
as to the cities of Kostomuksha and Petrozavodsk.
There are 5
urban and suburban routes in the city.
Belomorsk is a major railway hub (there are destinations to Murmansk,
St. Petersburg and Vologda).
The Kem — Belomorsk — Maloga and Kem
— Belomorsk — Medvezhya Gora suburban trains pass through Belomorsk.
Five kilometers west of the station there is a single-track bypass
of Belomorsk, used for freight traffic. It originates from the 791
kilometer waypoint, located just north of the city, and ends at the Uda
station, located slightly to the southwest.
The Belomorsky seaport was established in 1934 for transshipment of goods and servicing of ships following the Belomorsko-Baltic Canal. Currently, there is a passenger service to the Solovetsky Islands.
The title of "Honorary Citizen of the city of Belomorsk" was
established in 1988.
Andreeva Serafima Pavlovna
Ankudinova Galina
Mikhailovna
Babkin Rudolf Mikhailovich
Bazadzhiev Anton Akimovich
Batusov Leonid Ivanovich
Bessonov Valentin Evgenievich
Bogdanova
Claudia Andreevna
Bondarenko Anatoly Alekseevich
Buiko Anna
Vasilyevna
Gennady Ivanovich Vakhrameev
Vdovina Nina Pavlovna
Voskoboynikov Vladimir Vladislavovich
Ilitalo Nina Fedorovna
Katanandov, Sergey Leonidovich
Kobzev Valentin Ivanovich
Kryuchkova Antonina Nikolaevna
Levin, Nikolai Ivanovich
Matveev
Vladimir Arkadyevich
Mikhailov Sergey Vladimirovich
Petrova Vera
Antonovna
Poluzerova Tamara Vasilyevna
Alexander Filippovich Popov
Semenova Valentina Borisovna
Siversky Victor Vasilyevich
Titov
Boris Antonovich
Titov Fyodor Ivanovich
Ergashev Abdilhamit
Abdirokhmanovich