Segezha (russian: Сеге́жа; krl, Segeža; fi, Sekehe) 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 is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

, 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. 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 transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

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 was moved here to serve his sentence. Russian activist Ildar Dadin writes that he was tortured in this prison in September 2016.Ildar Dadin: deadly torture in Karelian prison
The Independent Barents Observer AS, 2016

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Segezha serves as the

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

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