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Olonets is located in Olonets Karelia. The city is located at the confluence of the Olonka and Megrega rivers, 120 km south-west of Petrozavodsk and 15 kilometers east of the coast of Lake Ladoga. One of the oldest cities in the north-west of Russia. The population is less than 10 thousand people. It is the administrative center of the Olonets district of the republic.
1 Smolensky Cathedral (Fr. Mariam). The stone temple on the
island at the confluence of the Olonka and Megrega rivers was built
in 1824-1828 by the personal order of Alexander I on the site of an
older church. They say that in 1819, on the way to Petrozavodsk, the
emperor stopped in Olonets, where he received news of the birth of
his niece and ordered a prayer service to be held in honor of this,
but was horrified by the state of the church and granted money for
its reconstruction. In a sense, a quite ordinary monument of
classicism benefited from the destruction of the Soviet era: it lost
its bell tower altogether, but the domes were restored in the early
2000s, having painted the drums orange in contrast to the white main
volume, which looks unusual. Colorful wooden bridges, built after
the war, but already declared a cultural heritage, lead to the
island where the temple stands.
2 Wall of the Olonets fortress,
Sq. Gagarin (off the coast of the Olonka). A fragment of the wooden
outer wall of the Big City was recreated based on the results of
archaeological excavations. The fortress was built in 1649 to
protect the border of the Russian state, established after the Peace
of Stolbov, a peace treaty with Sweden after the war of 1610-1617.
Under this treaty, Russia ceded to Sweden all the lands around the
Baltic Sea, and the border moved to Olonets. In 1668 the fortress
burned down and was rebuilt two years later. It burned down again in
1741 and was no longer restored, as the borders moved far to the
west. From the fortress, a part of the fortress moat from the side
of the street of the Svir Divisions, single logs washed out of the
banks, and a cobblestone pavement left from the road to the
Nikolskaya Tower and the bridge over the Megrega that have not been
preserved have been preserved.
3rd Street of the 30th Anniversary
of the Victory. Picturesque street on the territory of the former
fortress. It is notable for the fact that most of the historical
houses of the city are concentrated on it, interspersed with
two-story houses of the middle of the 20th century. The local
authorities have renovated the façades, and although the street is
still far from perfect, it is quite walkable.
4 Bust of Lenin,
pl. Gagarin. This bust of the leader will appeal to collectors of
non-standard monuments to Lenin, since instead of the usual cap,
Ilyich is depicted in a hat with earflaps and looks very much like a
local hunter or peasant. The author, the famous Karelian sculptor
Leo Lankinen, is also known as the creator of the memorial
composition "The Cross of Sorrow" in the Pitkyaranta region.
5 Lutheran Church , st. Svirsky Divisions, 12a. A modern Lutheran
church, built in 1996 according to the design of the Finnish
engineer Urjo Kauppinen and designed by the artist Paula Nurmi. It
is interesting as the newest of the Finnish churches that have any
architectural and artistic design.
6 Roadside Cross, vil.
Tatchelitsa, near house 27 (along Oktyabrskaya street along the
river, 1.6 km from Mariam Island). Wooden veneration cross of the
19th century in the chapel-pencil case, one of the few surviving
historical veneration crosses. In addition, the house near the
cross, built in 1907, is a classic example of the wooden
architecture of the Russian North of those years.
7 Church of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, vil. Kunilitsa, Olonets city
cemetery (3 km from Mariam Island, you can drive by suburban buses
to Ilyinsky and Tuksu). The wooden church was built in 1788 in the
style of classicism and therefore does not at all look like a
typical wooden church of the Russian North: even the windows here
are reminiscent of St. Petersburg mansions. It is interesting
because it was not closed during the Soviet years, and therefore it
has preserved many relics from the surrounding churches, including
the temple icon of the Smolensk Cathedral. Unfortunately, the
interior of the church, which survived the Soviet era, was lost in a
fire in the winter of 2014, and the current one has only a weak
relation to the original.
Fans of military history should also
take a look at military memorials: the mass grave of those who died
in the Civil War, the Great Patriotic War memorial and the ZIS-5
memorial cannon.
In recent years, there has been a tendency
in Olonets to duplicate signs for shops and municipal institutions
in the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language. They can be seen on
the streets of Uritsky, Svirsky Divisions, Svoboda. In some places
there are also duplicated street signs.
1 Museum of Karelian Livviks named after N.G. Prilukina, st. 30th
Anniversary of Victory, 8. ☎ +7 (960) 219-22-66, +7 (960) 219-22-77.
Mon–Fri 10:00–17:00, Sun 11:00–15:00. 100₽ (preferential categories 60₽,
there are also benefits for children). The ethnographic museum dedicated
to Karelian culture has collected household items preserved in private
hands or found by archaeologists, and an open country exposition in
Bolshaya Selga shows traditional Karelian houses. Numismatists may also
be interested in the collection of coins from the 17th-20th centuries.
The residence of Frost Pakkaine, the Karelian Father Frost, is also
located here. The museum is located in the preserved wooden merchant
house of the Kuttuev family (1871−1872, restored in 1995). You can take
a walking tour of the city or a bus tour of the surrounding area.
2 Private military-patriotic museum , st. 30th Anniversary of Victory,
4. ☎ +7 (953) 537-25-49. Chamber exposition dedicated to the Great
Patriotic War in Karelia. In the museum you can see authentic samples of
military uniforms, cartridges, household items of that era, soldiers'
letters and awards, and much more. There is also a corner of the history
of the pioneer organization in the USSR. Opened by appointment.
3
City beach, Rosa Luxembourg street (behind the house 13, behind the
school stadium). An unequipped beach on the inner bank of the Olonka
bend. A popular holiday destination for locals.
4 Center for
Creativity and Leisure (DK of the city of Olonets) , st. Svir
Divisions, 2. ☎ +7 (81436) 4-34-97. 10:00–23:00. from 180₽. There are
circles, including sometimes an amateur art club. Various events and
city holidays are also held, the schedule needs to be clarified in
social networks.
5 Cinema "October" , st. Svir Divisions, 4. ☎ +7
(902) 771-95-05. Fri–Sun 17:00–23:00. Here you can see both new releases
and films from 10-15 years ago.
6 City Stadium, Proletarskaya St. The
stadium has both a football field with artificial turf and athletics
grounds. An asphalt bike path runs along the banks of the Olonka River.
1 Shopping center, st. Uritsky, 2b. Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00; Sat–Sun
9:00–16:00. Two-story mall: The second floor consists almost entirely of
clothing departments. On the first floor there is an auto parts store, a
pharmacy and communication stores. Dec 2022 edit
2 Shopping center
"Summer", st. Uritsky, 15a. The largest shopping center in the city.
3 Shopping center "Iceberg", st. Uritskogo, 25. Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00;
Sat–Sun 9:00–16:00. A three-story shopping complex: cosmetics stores, a
flower and fish store and a furniture store.
4 TC "Gubernsky", st.
Svirsky Divisions, 6. A small shopping complex, in addition to a
supermarket, there are several non-food stores.
By plane
The nearest international airports are located in
Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg, in Olonets itself the airfield of local
airlines ceased to exist in the Soviet years.
By train
The
nearest major station is in Lodeynoye Pole, where trains to St.
Petersburg, Moscow, Petrozavodsk, Murmansk and many other destinations
stop. You can get there on a commuter train running daily through
Olonets, connecting Lodeinoye Pole with Olonets, Pitkyaranta, Janisjoki
Valley, Ruskeala and Sortavala. Flights are served by rail buses RA3
"Orlan".
Railway station, st. Station Olonets, 1. A small
post-war station. There is a waiting room open around the clock, but the
box office is closed and tickets are sold by the cashiers on the train.
The station is a little out of the way and with luggage it can be
difficult to get to it from the center, in case of doubt it is better to
call a taxi.
The line itself is interesting because it is one of
the last sections of the railway in Russia, where electromechanical
semaphores are used for signaling. In Olonets itself and in the
direction of Lodeynoye Pole, they have long been replaced by traffic
lights, but in the direction of Pitkyaranta, the old signals are at
every station up to Lyaskel. The nearest semaphore to Olonets is located
near the Ilyinskaya station, 20 km from the city, and if you drive along
the road towards Pitkyaranta, you can see it at the railway crossing in
Vidlitsa.
By car
Near the city, along the ring road (about 7
kilometers), passes the federal highway P21 "Kola", connecting St.
Petersburg (290 km) and Petrozavodsk (150 km). Highway 86K8 leads from
Olonets along the shore of Lake Ladoga to Pitkyaranta (120 km) and
further to highway A121 to Sortavala (190 km). If the road surface on
the federal highway is almost perfect, then the roads in Olonets and its
environs leave much to be desired - lighting is not present everywhere,
even within settlements, and the asphalt has not changed for decades. It
should also be borne in mind that on many streets of Olonets, from 7 am
to 8 pm, there is a speed limit of 40 km per hour.
There are only
two gas stations in the vicinity of Olonets:
Gas station Rosneft,
der. Verkhovye, 284 km of the P21 highway. around the clock. Network gas
station, hot dog stand and coffee.
Gas station Ecotek, Olonets,
Komsomolskaya st. 30. ☎ +7 (81436) 4-12-27. around the clock. Karelian
network of filling stations (Petro-oil). Usually prices are slightly
higher, fuel quality is unknown.
Also in the village of Verkhovye (12
km from Olonets) there is a gas filling station:
AGZS
Karelgaz/Servergaz, der. Verkhovye, 284 km of the P21 highway. ☎ +7
(921) 803-48-04. 8:00–20:00.
By bus
Buses from Petrozavodsk go
here about 8 times a day, the journey takes 2.5 hours. Many of them are
passing: either to St. Petersburg through Lodeynoye Pole, or to
Sortavala through Pitkyaranta. In addition, a bus runs from St.
Petersburg to Pitkyaranta at least once a day with an intermediate stop
in Olonets. Buses between Moscow and Murmansk also follow the P21
highway, some of which stop on demand at a junction or at a traffic
police post.
Bus station , st. Svobody, 12. ☎ +7 (81436)
4-15-39; +7 (81436) 4-18-24. 7:30–19:20. Bus station with a ticket
office, a small waiting room and benches under a canopy. Bank cards are
accepted. The bus schedule is published on the district website.
On the ship
The Olonka and Megrega rivers, at the confluence of which
Olonets is built, are too shallow for large-scale navigation, moreover,
their channels are heavily meandered, which makes it unprofitable to
travel by boat. This, as well as the steep banks, is the reason why
there is not even the most run-of-the-mill boat pier or footbridge in
the whole city.
The municipal bus that ran around the city in the Soviet years ceased
to exist in the 90s. Now, from public transport in Olonets, there are
only a couple of taxi services, aggregators do not operate in the city.
A trip around the city costs about 100 rubles (2020).
Taxi Hope -
+7 (921) 013-14-14
Taxi United - +7 (921) 625-25-25
1 Hostel "Brusnichka" , st. Lenina, 21. ☎ +7 (921) 220-80-15.
from 700 ₽. Rooms for 2, 4, 6 and 8 people. Hot water, kitchen, TV,
free Wi-Fi. Reviews are mostly good.
2 Hotel Olonia , st. Svir
Divisions, 5. ☎ +7 (921) 016-80-01. from 1200₽. The hotel is in a
separate building almost in the center of the city. Single and
double rooms with private facilities, there is a suite. There is
also a cafeteria and a bakery in the hotel building. Free Wi-Fi,
good reviews.
3 Guest house "Ladoga-2" , st. Svir Divisions,
12. ☎ +7 (81436) 34-659. from 1250₽. Guest house with restaurant.
Double and quadruple rooms, amenities in the corridor. Mixed
reviews; guests note that the rooms have not been renovated for a
long time.
Cheap
1 Dining room No. 5 (MUP "Olonetsobshchepit") , st.
Svirsky Divisions, 3. Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00; Sat–Sun 9:00–16:00.
Ordinary diner, good reviews. It is located in the very center of
the city, and therefore the menu here is a little more diverse than
in other Olonets catering canteens, but there are also more
visitors: queues here are quite common, many dishes may not be
available by the end of the day.
2 Dining room No. 10 (MUP
"Olonets obshchepit") , Rechnaya st. 7. Mon–Fri 9:00–16:00. 200-300
₽ for a full meal. The smallest of the Olonets catering canteens -
the hall here is only 4 tables and in general everything is rather
cramped. Nevertheless, even here you will be offered a choice of two
or three first and five second courses, salads and even pastries for
a very small price. Dishes, although not distinguished by
sophistication, are quite tasty, and the portions do not look small.
3 Dining room No. 12 (MUP "Olonets obshchepit") , Polevaya st.
11a. Mon–Fri 9:00–16:00.
4 Cafe-dining room "Pampushka", st.
30th Anniversary of Victory, 11. ☎ +7 (921) 223-47-59. Mon–Fri
9:00–18:00. Dining room, good reviews.
5 Kafe LOFT , street of
the 30th anniversary of the Victory, 5A, Olonets. ☎ +7 (953)
537-60-73. Sun–Thu 10:00–22:00 Fri–Sat 10:00–24:00. The usual
institution - there are breakfasts, salads.
6 Cookery
"Pampushka" , st. Uritsky, 32. ☎ +7 (921) 223-47-59. Mon–Fri
9:00–18:00. Shop for homemade culinary products.
Average cost
✦ Restaurant "Ladoga", st. Svirsky Divisions, 12. The restaurant in
the guest house of the same name, works at the request of guests at
any time.
7 Villagio , st. Svir Divisions, 9. ☎ +7 (953)
543-05-05. Mon–Thu 8:00–23:00; Fri 8:00–2:00; Sat 11:00–2:00; Sun
11:00–23:00. Restaurant of Italian cuisine. Mixed reviews.
8 Sushi-pizza-bar "Tokyo" , Krasnoarmeiskaya st. 6a. ☎ +7 (911)
403-22-93. 11:00–23:00. Asian and Italian restaurant. They deliver
food. There is a children's room and free Wi-Fi.
9 Cafe
BistroEshka, st. Lenina, 6. ☎ +7 (909) 570-59-59. The only 24 hour
restaurant in town. Shawarma, pita, beer.
10 Cafeteria , st.
Svir Divisions, 5. ☎ +7 (931) 700-51-55. 11:00–23:00. The cafeteria
at the hotel is perhaps the prettiest food outlet in the city.
Coffee, cocktails, shawarma, ice cream, samsa.
Night life
1 Cafe-bar "Luna" , st. Svobody, 3. ☎ +7 (921) 019-61-30. Bar and
cafe with a predominantly evening-night operation. Both open and
closed events, concerts of visiting artists, discos are held. Wide
selection of cocktails, good reviews. Entrance strictly from 18
years old. You can order food delivery.
The main mobile operators in Russia operate in the city: MTS,
Beeline, Megafon, Tele2 and Yota; at the same time, outside the
settlements, the connection is not very good and in some places may be
completely absent, but in the city all operators provide an Internet
connection via a 4G signal. It is traditionally believed that MegaFon
has the widest coverage in Karelia.
Post office 186000, st.
Uritsky 13. ☎ +7 (81436) 41-3-45. Mon–Fri 8:00–19:30; Sat 9:00–18:00.
City post office. Point of collective access to the Internet.
There is no need to take any special precautions in Olonets: crime in the city is traditionally low and mostly domestic. Moreover: in the city and its environs there are a large number of tourist centers and other places of recreation, a significant part of the local population is employed in the tourism and related industries, which for the most part understands how important the flow of tourists is for the area. So the probability of getting into trouble for a visiting tourist is extremely small.
Olonets is one of the oldest villages in Karelia. The sites of the
ancient man, discovered in the lower reaches of the Olonka River (Lake
Ladoga basin), are dated by archaeologists to the 3rd-2nd millennium BC.
During the time of Novgorodian independence, Olonets belonged to
the ruler of Novgorod.
For the first time in written sources,
Olonets is mentioned in the postscript to the Charter of the Novgorod
prince Svyatoslav Olgovich. The charter itself dates from 1137. However,
modern historians date the postscript to the 13th century, and the first
mention is considered to be 1228, when Olonets is mentioned in several
chronicles.
During the Russian-Swedish wars of the 16th-17th
centuries, the city was repeatedly ruined.
According to the
Stolbovsky peace treaty of 1617, the border with Sweden began to pass 40
km from the Olonets churchyard. In 1648, for strategic reasons, the
Olonets Christmas churchyard was transferred to the treasury. At the
confluence of the Olonka and Megrega rivers, where the main village of
the churchyard, known as Tolmachev-navolok, was located, in September
1649, by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, under the leadership of
Prince Fyodor Volkonsky and deacon Stepan Elagin, the "frontier
fortress" Olonets was built. The Olonets fortress became the core of the
city, the administrative center of the Zaonezhsky and Lopsky
churchyards, an outpost in the fight against the Swedes. The fortress
wall (there were 1300 loopholes in the walls) stretched along the river
banks for more than 1.5 km and had 19 towers. The highest - the Red
Tower was 32 meters high. The church of the Trinity, grain barns,
voivodship yards and 155 yards were built in the fortress, in which the
local population hid during the attacks of the Swedish troops. The
garrison was armed with 31 guns of various calibers and 824 muskets. In
terms of the number of towers, the length of the walls and military
equipment, the fortress surpassed Arkhangelsk and all Siberian cities,
second only to Kholmogory.
The city itself becomes the seat of
the Olonets governor. “So that the city is not empty,” wealthy peasants
were resettled here from various Zaonezhsky churchyards, engaged in
trade and crafts, including ironworks. The townspeople of Olonets in the
2nd half of the 17th century were enterprising merchants, on their small
ships they even went to Stockholm.
In the 1670s, Yakov Streshnev
served as Olonets governor. At that time, Olonets turned into a single
commercial, military and administrative center of Karelia.
The
era of Peter I
At the end of the 17th century, Olonets had 726
households.
In August 1700, Peter I declared war on Sweden, and
the Great Northern War began.
In the XVII-XVIII centuries. V.
Olonets continued to be a major trading ("merchant") center.
By
the beginning of 1702, there were already ironworks to the north of
Olonets, as can be seen from the decree of Peter I to the son of A.
Butenant dated January 5, 1702:
“At the Olonets Iron Works of the
foreigner Andrey Butenant von Rosenbusch, immediately pour out 100 iron
and cast iron cannons of the best quality, without any flaws, with a
core of 12 pounds and 1000 cores for each cannon, and from Olonets, as
he has already been instructed, deliver to Novgorod no later March
1702."
In the first years of the Northern War, during the
campaigns of 1702-1703, Russian troops occupied Ingria.
By 1703,
in the vicinity of Olonets, in Lodeynoye Pole on the Svir River, a
military shipyard was established, which was called the Olonets
shipyard. The frigates of the Baltic Fleet were built at the Olonets
shipyard and armed with guns at the Olonets factories. This is
reminiscent of the emblem of Olonets, which depicts two crossed
knipples. A knippel is a specific naval cannon ammunition made of two
cannonballs bound with a short piece of chain.
The mobilization
of the population for work and the army, as well as the construction of
St. Petersburg, contributed to impoverishment, the gradual ruin and
desolation of the courtyards of Olonets. In some cities, this decline
was significant. Pskov, Novgorod and Kargopol can also be attributed to
the number of such cities in the North-West of Russia.
In 1707,
by order of A. D. Menshikov, postal camps were installed from St.
Petersburg to Olonets and a little later - to the Petrovsky Arms Plant.
In 1708, the Ingermanland province was formed, which included
Olonets.
In 1712, Olonets was placed under the jurisdiction of
the Admiralty.
Since 1719, Peter I began to visit Olonets and was
treated at the Olonets marcial waters. Treatment on the Olonets waters
was accompanied by the usual activity for Peter I. Seeing that the water
treatment in Olonets was going slowly, Peter I said: “I heal the body
with water, and my subjects with my own examples. In both I see a very
slow healing, however, relying on God, I hope that time will decide
everything.
The value of Olonets - the fortress was preserved
until 1721, when the Swedish border was pushed to the north and the
military-strategic significance of the city came to naught.
In
1724, Peter I came to Olonets for the last time for treatment.
18th century
On April 29, 1727, during the reign of Empress Catherine
I, the Supreme Privy Council issued a decree to the Senate on a new
administrative reform, during which the Novgorod province was separated
from the St. Petersburg province. And in October 1727, already in the
reign of the young Emperor Peter II, by decree of the Supreme Privy
Council, Olonets was assigned to the Novgorod province. The city again
became the administrative and judicial center of the Olonets district.
In the list of provinces and provinces, this county was included in the
Novgorod province, one of the five provinces of the new province.
In 1741, the Olonets fortress burned down in a fire and was no
longer restored.
In 1773, by decree of Catherine II, the Olonets
province was created (it consisted of two counties and one district).
Olonets was appointed the regional city of the Olonets province.
In 1784, it became a county town of the Olonets viceroy (Petrozavodsk
came first).
With the formation of the Olonets province at the
end of the 18th century, the administrative center moved to the city of
Petrozavodsk, and Olonets gradually turned into a quiet provincial town.
19th century
Since 1801, Olonets has been a county town of the
Olonets province.
Following the abolition of serfdom, carried out
in 1861, the zemstvo reform of 1864 followed, which created local
self-government bodies - zemstvos.
On October 4, 1880, the chapel
built by the merchant K. A. Chertov was consecrated in the name of St.
Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky in memory of the miraculous deliverance
of the emperor from the hand of a villain.
In 1887, there were 7
volosts and the city of Olonets in the Olonets district. In Olonets
lived - 1427 souls.
By January 1, 1896, there were 1496
inhabitants: nobles - 118, clergy - 23, honorary citizens and merchants
- 49, philistines - 1037, military estates - 143, Finnish - 88, other
estates - 38. Orthodox - 1445, schismatics - 1 , Catholics - 16,
Lutherans - 29, Mohammedans - 5. Orthodox churches - 1 stone and 4
wooden, 2 chapels. Zemstvo hospital for 12 beds. A city school with 70
students and a women's parish school with 27 students. Stone houses - 1,
wooden - 171; shops - 28. Merchant certificates issued - 12, for petty
bargaining - 16, fishing - 4, clerks - 12. Fairs - 2. City land 7954
acres. Two almshouses (for 59 detainees), of which one is with a shelter
for children (for 19 people); annual expense - 423 rubles. There was
also a charity committee for the poor and a charitable circle. City
income 7674 rubles, expenditure 7244 rubles; reserve capital 2400
rubles.
20th century
In 1909, on the bridge across the Megrega
and Olonka, a monument was unveiled in honor of Tsarevich Alexei
Nikolaevich with a pommel in the form of a double-headed eagle (not
preserved).
In 1912, 2058 people lived in Olonets.
Revolution, civil war
After the fall of the monarchy in Russia in
1917, the collapse of the Russian Empire began. At the end of 1917, the
Grand Duchy of Finland declared independence. During the Civil War of
1918-1920 and the intervention, independence from Soviet Russia was
demanded by the northern volosts of Karelia.
In 1919, the
Bolshevik F. I. Egorov became the chairman of the Olonets district
revolutionary committee, the Olonets military commissar. In 1920-1921.
he performs the duties of chairman of the Olonets district committee of
the RCP (b).
In 1920, the Bolsheviks finally established Soviet
power on the territory of Karelia. With the active participation of the
Finnish socialist Edvard Gylling and the support of V. I. Lenin, on June
8, 1920, by a decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the
Karelian labor commune was formed from the areas of the Olonets and
Arkhangelsk provinces inhabited by Karelians.
USSR
In 1923,
the Karelian labor commune was transformed into the Autonomous Karelian
Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1927, Olonets was transformed into
a rural settlement.
During the Soviet-Finnish War on
September 5, 1941, units of the Karelian Army of Finland occupied
Olonets.
On June 25, 1944, units of the Karelian Front, during
the Svir-Petrozavodsk offensive operation, entered the city abandoned by
the Finnish troops.
On July 7, 1944, Olonets again received the
status of a city.
The name of the city goes back to the name of the river Olonets
(modern Olonka, Karelian Anuksenjogi), which may be of Sami origin, cf.
Prasaam. *ōlō ‘flood waters’ + toponymic suffix nčē → *ōlōnčē → Olonets.
This fact is confirmed, for example, by the location of the lower
reaches of the river within the Olonets plain, which, during the period
of the ancient Sami population living here, was apparently subject to
spring floods. There are also versions of origin from Fin. alanko -
"lowland" or from the ancient Vepsian "alnus" - also "lowland".
Previously, this place was called Alones, Olones (Chit. Alones, Olones).
The normative stress in Russian is on the second vowel, Olonets.
However:
the stress on the last vowel, Olonets, is common,
present in dictionaries and acceptable;
the normative stress in the
adjective "Olonets" is on the third vowel, although the Olonets variant
is also possible;
there is a literary stress Olonets (poem of the
same name by A. Prokofiev, rhyme with well done).
Emphasis in the
name of a city dweller on the third vowel: olonchanin.
Olonets is located at the confluence of the Olonka and Megrega rivers, on the Olonets Plain, 140 km southwest of Petrozavodsk, 269 km northeast of St. Petersburg along the P21 highway (Kola highway).
The average annual air temperature is 3.3 °C
Average wind speed -
3.1 m/s
According to the 2020 All-Russian Population Census, as of October 1,
2021, in terms of population, the city was in 1002nd place out of 1118
cities of the Russian Federation.
National composition
Olonets
is the only city in the territory of Karelia where Karelians make up the
majority of the population, in addition, the Olonets region is a place
of compact residence of Livvik Karelians and the most populated region
of the Republic of Karelia by Karelians.
In addition to the
Karelians, Olonets is home to such traditional Karelia peoples as Finns,
Russians, as well as Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles and Lithuanians. And
if the Russians lived on this land since ancient times, then the rest of
the above peoples moved to Karelia and, in particular, to the Olonets
region relatively recently. With regard to the Belarusian and Ukrainian
population, this is primarily due to the post-war resettlement from the
destroyed villages of Belarus and Ukraine; for Poles and Lithuanians,
Karelia was a place of exile. As for the Finns, a large number of them
moved to Karelia in the 50s of the XX century, since at that time the
Finnish language was the second official language on the territory of
the republic.
There is a small community of Chechens in Olonets
and Olonets district, which is not typical for this region and the
republic as a whole. According to the 2002 census, 53 representatives of
this nationality live here. As a result, a number of inter-ethnic
conflicts arose in the region.