Losevo (; ) is a rural locality (a station settlement) in

Priozersky District Priozersky District () is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #50-oz district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Leningrad Oblast, seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and ...

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, located at the junction of

Vuoksi River The Vuoksi (, historically: "Uzerva"; ; ; ) is a river running through the northernmost part of the Karelian Isthmus from Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland to Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia. The river enters Lake Ladoga in three branches ...

and

Lake Sukhodolskoye Lake Sukhodolskoye (; ) is a narrow 40 km long lake on the Karelian Isthmus located in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is a part of the Vuoksi River basin, constituting its southern armlet, and drained by Burnaya River. ...

Karelian Isthmus The Karelian Isthmus (; ; ) is the approximately stretch of land situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva. Its northwestern boundary is a line from the Bay of Vyborg to the we ...

. It is a

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of the Saint Petersburg–Khiytola railroad. Before the

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and

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, it was a village of the Sakkola municipality of

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known as Kiviniemi. Originally waters of Lake Sukhodolskoye quietly flowed into Vuoksi, but in 1818, as

Burnaya River The Burnaya (, ) is a young rapid river in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on the Karelian Isthmus, which emerged in 1818. It flows from Lake Sukhodolskoye to Lake Ladoga and is a part of Vuoksi River drainage basin. Before th ...

had emerged and started draining Sukhodolskoye into

Lake Ladoga Lake Ladoga is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe, the second largest lake in Russia after Lake ...

, the level of the former decreased dramatically by and the waterway connecting it to Vuoksi dried out. In 1857, the channel was dug, but the stream reversed direction, revealed

rapids Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep stream gradient, gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence. Flow, gradient, constriction, and obstacles are four factors that are needed for a rapid t ...

, and rendered navigation impossible. Since 1857 Lake Sukhodolskoye and Burnaya River have constituted the southern armlet of Vuoksi River, which has decreased the level of the original northern armlet by . Before the construction of Saint Petersburg-Khiytola railroad, Kiviniemi was an important

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connected to Antrea ( Kamennogorsk), Käkisalmi ( Priozersk), and Taipale ( Solovyovo). In 1917, the railroad was constructed, and a railway bridge passed over the rapids.

External links

History of Losevo/Kiviniemi

References

Rural localities in Leningrad Oblast Karelian Isthmus {{Coord, 60.678, N, 30.001, E, type:city_source:GNS-enwiki, display=title