Live webcam opens a view of Gogol Street, Pitkyaranta. Among the eighteen municipal districts of Karelia, Pitkyaranta practically does not stand out in any way. This is a quiet district center, completely inconspicuous - a typical five-story building, wide streets with rare cars, a House of Culture, several monuments and a beach area.
But you can come here for the sake of amazing nature, striking in its imagination and ingenuity. That there is only one road leading to the cities - eight kilometers winds along the coast of Lake Ladoga, so that moss-covered rocks and a dense pine forest hang on one side, and on the other - the blue surface of the lake, smooth as glass, in calm weather.
The history of the Pitkäranta region has always been closely connected with Finland and Sweden. This is also indicated by the unusual names of the main city and settlements of the region. The first mentions of a small settlement called "Village on the Long Bank" appeared in the census book of the Vodskaya pyatina of the Novgorod land, in 1499. At the beginning of the XVII, according to the peace Treaty of Stolbovo, a small village, together with the Northern Ladoga area, was transferred to Sweden. After the defeat of Sweden in the Northern War, these lands were returned to Russia. In 1917, Finland, conquered from Sweden at the beginning of the 19th century, gained independence, and Pitkäranta with the lands of the Ladoga area again “changed its citizenship”. In 1940, after the end of the Soviet-Finnish War, Pitkäranta was returned to the USSR. In 1952, Pitkyaranta received the status of the administrative center of the Pitkyaranta region. In 1947 the district was abolished, and in 1966 it was re-formed.