Segezha (russian: Сеге́жа; krl, Segeža; fi, Segeža) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

Segezhsky District Segezhsky District (russian: Сеге́жский райо́н; krl, Segežan piiri) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.Constitution of the Republic of Karelia It is located in the east ...

of the

Republic of Karelia The Republic of Karelia (russian: Респу́блика Каре́лия, Respublika Kareliya; ; krl, Karjalan tašavalta; ; fi, Karjalan tasavalta; vep, Karjalan Tazovaldkund, Ludic: ''Kard’alan tazavald''), also known as just Karelia (rus ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, located north of

Petrozavodsk Petrozavodsk (russian: Петрозаводск, p=pʲɪtrəzɐˈvotsk; Karelian, Vepsian and fi, Petroskoi) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some . The population ...

on the Segezha River and on the western shore of

Lake Vygozero Lake Vygozero (russian: Выгозеро; fi, Uikujärvi) is a large freshwater lake in the Republic of Karelia, in the northwestern part of Russia. It has an area of , and is part of the Vyg drainage in the White Sea basin. From 1933 it has ...

. Population:

History

It was founded as a railway station on Murmansk Railway in 1915. A small settlement grew around the station; it was granted town status in 1943. The area around Segezha held many of the early camps within the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ...

system and was known as Segezhlag. Segezha still where Penal Colony 7 is located (). In June 2011,

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (russian: link=no, Михаил Борисович Ходорковский, ; born 26 June 1963), sometimes known by his initials MBK, is an exiled Russian businessman and opposition activist, now residing in L ...

was moved here to serve his sentence. Russian activist

Ildar Dadin Ildar Ildusovich Dadin (russian: Ильда́р Ильду́сович Да́дин, tt-Cyrl, Илдар Илдус улы Дадин, born April 14, 1982) is a Russian activist, accused of violent acts and derailing during demonstrations and hen ...

writes that he was tortured in this prison in September 2016.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Segezha serves as the

, to which it is directly subordinated.Law #871-RZK As a municipal division, the

of Segezha is incorporated within Segezhsky Municipal District as Segezhskoye Urban Settlement.Law #813-RZK

Economy

Segezha is the location of the

Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill, ''Segezha Group'', is a Russian pulp and paper company and the country's largest producer of kraft paper and paper sacks, controlled by Sistema. Overview The company produces 270,000 tonnes of sack kraft per year, a ...

, one of the largest pulp and paper companies in Russia.

Famous Natives

Shpalikov, Gennady Fedorovich — Soviet poet, film director, screenwriter. Alexander Gennadyevich Sidyakin is a politician, a deputy.

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* * * {{Authority control Cities and towns in the Republic of Karelia Segezhsky District Povenetsky Uyezd