Live webcam with a view of the crossroads of Bondarev - Pobeda streets in the city of Sortavala. The Karelian town of Sortavala is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ladoga, on both sides of the Läppäjärvi Bay. Only 270 km separate Sortavala from the capital of the republic - Petrozavodsk, and 50 km - from the border with Finland. As of 2019, the city has a permanent population of just over 18,000 people.
Interestingly, there are several versions about the origin of the city's name. For example, the famous Russian philologist Yakov Groth believed that the word “Sortavala” is based on the Finnish participle sorttawa (“dissecting”), which refers to the Vakkolahti bay dividing the city into two parts. There is also a "church" version, according to which the evil spirits, expelled by the monks from Valaam, went to the Sortavala region. And the name "Sortavala" (Finnish sorta from the Russian "devil", valta - power) means "the power of the devil."
No less interesting is the fact that Sortavala has visited three states in less than five hundred years: Finland, Sweden and Russia. Moreover, the city passed from hand to hand several times.
In the XIV - early XVII centuries, these lands were part of the Novgorod principality.
Then, starting in 1632, they were under the rule of the Swedish state for almost 100 years.
Since 1721, when the Northern Ladoga area was conquered by Peter I, the territory is again considered Russian.
Numerous wars did not benefit the city; it turned into a small village of Serdobol. Catherine II returned the status of a town to the village and presented the emblem.
After the 1917 revolution, the entire northern coast of Lake Ladoga passed into the possession of the Finns.
Only 33 years later, after the Winter War, Sortavala returned to the USSR.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Ladoga area again passed to the Finns, and in 1944 it again became Soviet territory.
All this change of power was reflected in the appearance of the city, its ethnic composition and cultural development. Having been under the rule of different countries in different centuries, now the city is a mixture of architectural styles, but unfortunately, for the most part only from the 19th-20th centuries. In 1903, a great fire broke out in Sortavala, which destroyed almost all the wooden buildings of the Old City. However, there are enough preserved buildings to rightfully attribute the city to one of the most interesting settlements in Karelia in terms of architecture.
Interestingly, there are several versions about the origin of the city's name. For example, the famous Russian philologist Yakov Groth believed that the word “Sortavala” is based on the Finnish participle sorttawa (“dissecting”), which refers to the Vakkolahti bay dividing the city into two parts. There is also a "church" version, according to which the evil spirits, expelled by the monks from Valaam, went to the Sortavala region. And the name "Sortavala" (Finnish sorta from the Russian "devil", valta - power) means "the power of the devil."
No less interesting is the fact that Sortavala has visited three states in less than five hundred years: Finland, Sweden and Russia. Moreover, the city passed from hand to hand several times.
In the XIV - early XVII centuries, these lands were part of the Novgorod principality.
Then, starting in 1632, they were under the rule of the Swedish state for almost 100 years.
Since 1721, when the Northern Ladoga area was conquered by Peter I, the territory is again considered Russian.
Numerous wars did not benefit the city; it turned into a small village of Serdobol. Catherine II returned the status of a town to the village and presented the emblem.
After the 1917 revolution, the entire northern coast of Lake Ladoga passed into the possession of the Finns.
Only 33 years later, after the Winter War, Sortavala returned to the USSR.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Ladoga area again passed to the Finns, and in 1944 it again became Soviet territory.
All this change of power was reflected in the appearance of the city, its ethnic composition and cultural development. Having been under the rule of different countries in different centuries, now the city is a mixture of architectural styles, but unfortunately, for the most part only from the 19th-20th centuries. In 1903, a great fire broke out in Sortavala, which destroyed almost all the wooden buildings of the Old City. However, there are enough preserved buildings to rightfully attribute the city to one of the most interesting settlements in Karelia in terms of architecture.
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