Svirstroy () is an urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

) in

Lodeynopolsky District Lodeynopolsky District () is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #63-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Olonetsky District of the Re ...

Leningrad Oblast Leningrad Oblast (, ; ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). The oblast has an area of and a population of 2,000,997 (2021 Russian census, 2021 Census); up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Russian census ...

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, located on the left bank of the

Svir River The Svir (; ; Karelian and Finnish: ) is a river in Podporozhsky, Lodeynopolsky, and Volkhovsky districts in the north-east of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It flows westwards from Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga, thus connecting the two largest l ...

several kilometers northeast of the town of

Lodeynoye Pole Lodeynoye Pole (, lit. ''the field of boats'') is a town and the administrative center of Lodeynopolsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Svir River (Lake Ladoga's basin) northeast of St. Petersburg. ...

. Municipally, it is incorporated as Svirstroyskoye Urban Settlement, one of the two urban settlements in the district. The name of the settlement is an abbreviation meaning ''Construction on the Svir''. Population:

History

In 1927, a large-scale construction of the

Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station () is a hydroelectric station on the Svir River located in the urban-type settlement of Svirstroy, Leningrad Oblast, in northwestern Russia. It was open on December 19, 1933 and has the total power of 99 MW. I ...

started, and subsequently in 1931, the concentration camp of

Svirlag Svirlag, SvirLAG (Svirskiy Lager' – Svir Concentration-Camp, , also / – ) was a Soviet forced labour camp run by NKVD's GULAG Directorate. It was located on the river Svir River, Svir (hence the name Svirskiy in Russian language, Russian) in ...

was established. The settlement which hosted the headquarters of Svirlag became known as Svirstroy. In the same year, Svirstroy was granted urban-type settlement status. On May 13, 1963, during the abortive Khrushhyov administrative reform, Svirstroy was subordinated to the town of Podporozhye, but on January 13, 1965 it was transferred back to Lodeynopolsky District.

Economy

The economy of the settlement is essentially based on the

Transportation

A paved road connecting

with Podporozhye and Vytegra passes Svirstroy. The Svir River is navigable and is a part of the

Volga–Baltic Waterway The Volga–Baltic Waterway (), formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System (), is a series of canals and rivers in Russia which link the Volga with the Baltic Sea via the Neva. Like the Volga–Don Canal, it is part of the Unified Deep Water ...

, connecting the basins of the Volga and the Neva Rivers. There is regular cruise and cargo traffic along the waterway.

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=August 2012 Urban-type settlements in Leningrad Oblast