Petrozavodsk

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Petrozavodsk is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some 27 kilometers (17 mi). The population of the city is 280,890 as of 2022.

The name of the city means "Peter's factory"; it is a combination of words Peter (after Peter the Great) and zavod ('factory').

It was previously known as Shuysky Zavod (1703–1704) and Petrovskaya Sloboda (1704–1777), which was the first name of the city related to Peter the Great. It was renamed to Petrozavodsk after Catherine the Great granted the settlement the status of a city in 1777.

It was unofficially planned in the 1930s to rename the city to Gyllinggrad, in honor of the long-time leader of the Karelian ASSR, Edvard Gylling. However, Gylling quickly became unpopular amongst Soviet authorities during the same decade and ended up being executed as part of the Great Purge, leading to the city never being renamed. Petrozavodsk is sometimes referred to as Kalininsk, after Mikhail Kalinin, in some older Soviet-era maps, regardless of the city never officially having such a name.

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