Salmi (; Finnish and , lit. ''inlet'') is a rural locality (a settlement) in

Pitkyarantsky District Pitkyarantsky District (; ; ) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.Constitution of the Republic of Karelia It is located in the southwest of the republic. The area of the district is . Its a ...

of the

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. Municipally, it is incorporated within and serves as the

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of Salminskoye Rural Settlement of Pitkyarantsky Municipal District.

History

The first mention of the Solomenskiy Orthodox

pogost ''Pogost'' (, from Old East Slavic: погостъ) is a Russian historical term which has had several meanings. In modern Russian, it typically refers to a rural church and graveyard. It has also been borrowed into Latgalian (''pogosts''), Fi ...

in this place dates back to 1500. It was part of the Korelsky district of the Vodskaya Pyatina. Before the capture of these territories by the Swedes in the early 17th century — the Solomians. "Voskresenskaya Solomyanskaya pogost" with borders from modern Uuksu to the Border Guard on the shore of Ladoga and to Suoyarvi in the north. Since 1617, as part of the Swedish Kingdom, from this period there has been a mass exodus of the local Karelian population to the territory of modern Tver and Vologda regions. In 1632, the Swedes of Salmi presented the rights of the city. Under the terms of the Nishtadt Peace Treaty in 1721, the lands were returned to the

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. At the beginning of the XX century, a steam sawmill, a ceramic factory and tanneries operated in the villages of Miynala, Tulema and a village on the island of Lunkulansaari. From 1918 to 1939 it was part of

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. With 90% of the population speaking Karelian as their mother tongue, Salmi used to be one of the most distinctly Karelian municipalities of the country In the 1935-1970s, the Salma Salmon Hatchery operated. From 1940 to 1991, it had the status of an urban-type settlement, a large

sovkhoz A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated from , ''sovetskoye khozyaystvo''; ) was a form of state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union. It is usually contrasted w ...

«Salmi» operated.

Attractions

* Grave grave of 1100 Soviet soldiers who died during the Soviet-Finnish War (1941-1944) and the grave of Hero of the Soviet Union T. I. Parshutkin. In 1959, a granite obelisk and a sculptural group were installed on the mass grave. * Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in 1826 (now in a dilapidated state).

Sister cities

Salmi is twinned with: *

Pielavesi Pielavesi is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Northern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Geograp ...

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References

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* Populated places in Pitkyarantsky District Rural localities in the Republic of Karelia Former municipalities of Finland Populated places established in 1500 1500 establishments in Europe 16th-century establishments in Finland Former urban-type settlements of Karelia {{RepublicofKarelia-geo-stub