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Live camera broadcasts a view of the intersection of Lenin and Pushkin streets in the city of Pitkyaranta. The city of Pitkyaranta is located on the territory of the Republic of Karelia in one of the most picturesque corners of Russia. A small town, the administrative center of the Pitkyaranta region, stretches along the northeastern coast of Lake Ladoga for several kilometers. The unusual name of the Karelian city fully justifies this feature - Pitkäranta in translation from the Finnish language means "long coast".

History of Pitkyaranta
The earliest written mention of a settlement located on the site of modern Pitkyaranta dates back to the very beginning of the 16th century. By that time, the Novgorod land was already part of the Moscow principality. In the scribe book of 1499-1500. it is noted that there were three Novgorodian farmsteads, where thirty people lived. Local residents cultivated the land, hunted, and hunted fishing.

Back in the XIII-XIV centuries, the northern coast of Ladoga was constantly raided by the Swedes who claimed it. In 1617, according to the Stolbovo Treaty, which put an end to the Seven Years War between the Russian state and Sweden, the Northern Ladoga area was ceded to the Swedish crown. The oldest attraction in the Pitkyaranta region - Varashev stone - keeps the memory of the Swedish presence. This border sign was installed in 1618 on the Varetsky cape near the village of Pogrankondushi, located 2 km from the coast of Lake Ladoga and 60 km from Pitkyaranta. The provincial village itself, which previously bore the name "Kondushi", became famous for its location. Situated on a strategic hill, it has been featured in documents documenting the border areas of Russia, Sweden and Finland for centuries.

In 1721, according to the Treaty of Nystad, signed after the defeat of Sweden in the Northern War, the former Novgorod lands returned to Russia. Pitkyaranta did not belong to one of the courtiers of Empress Catherine I for a long time, and then, as part of the Impilakhtinsky churchyard, it was transferred to the category of personal life-long property of Peter II. From 1730 to 1764, the churchyard belonging to the Vyborg province was in the possession of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, after that - the College of Economics, which managed church property and collection of taxes, and at the end of the 18th century it was transferred to the state treasury. In 1812, the Vyborg province became part of the Grand Duchy of Finland - the Russian governor-general, which enjoyed wide internal and external autonomy. In its structure, Pitkyaranta remained part of the Russian Empire until 1917.

At the end of the 18th century, copper ore was found in the vicinity of Pitkäranta. As a result of further geological surveys, it turned out that the bowels of the earth also hide tin, lead, zinc, silver, iron, gold. All these treasures lay on a fairly compact territory - within the modern city and in its northern suburbs. At the beginning of the 19th century, Russian and foreign geologists-naturalists, metallurgists, miners and simply enthusiastic entrepreneurs rushed to Pitkyarantu. In the 1930s, a successful industrialist Vsevolod Omelyanov laid a profitable mine on the site of the Pitkyaranta copper deposit. Having built a copper smelter, he also began mining tin.

In the mid-40s, all local mines and factories were acquired by the capital's joint-stock company Pitkyaranta Company, later the mines and enterprises passed from hand to hand several times. In the second half of the 19th century, houses for workers of enterprises, a school, a church were built in Pitkäranta. Young employees attended a special school for home economics - the best in the entire Finnish principality. The Pitkyaranta mines were developed with varying intensity until the 50s of the last century, they were finally mothballed only in the 80s. In addition to mining enterprises, there was a glass factory in Pitkyaranta, where products of increased strength were produced, as well as a sulphate one - here from the iron oxide formed during the melting of ores, a red paint was made, which was called "Pitkyaranta". In Finland, she was often used to paint wooden houses.

Local pomegranates are no less famous. The Kitoye deposit of these gems, located in the Pitkyaranta region, is one of the oldest and largest in Russia. It was developed by both Russians and Swedes, Finns, Karelians. Spectacular stones, painted in a deep red with a blackberry tint, adorn the crown of the Swedish kings. Today in the wooded area, cut by trenches, amateur prospectors swarm. However, it is almost impossible to find truly valuable stones here. Mostly fissured, tiny specimens come across.

By 1918, when Pitkäranta as a part of the Vyborg province went to independent Finland, it was a fairly large settlement, an important industrial center. In 1931, a branch of the Karelian railway was laid in Pitkyarantu. In 1939-1940, during the Soviet-Finnish war, the city was almost completely burned down. At the end of hostilities, Pitkyaranta, along with the rest of the territory of Ladoga Karelia, was transferred to the USSR. The Finns returned here in 1941, but in the summer of 1944, after long defensive battles, they left Pitkäranta.