The northern city of Petrozavodsk is located in a surprisingly beautiful place – in Karelia. However, at its foundation they were guided not by the picturesqueness of the Karelian landscapes, but by a favorable location. And they did not fail – Petrozavodsk grew quite quickly, turning into a large city.
Its history began in 1703, when Peter I ordered the laying of an arms factory on the shores of Lake Onega. The city gradually grew around the factory. Petrozavodsk is the capital of the Republic of Karelia. The population density here exceeds 2 thousand people per square kilometer. Geographically, Petrozavodsk belongs to Europe. Summer here usually begins only in the second half of June. There is also a heat above 30 degrees. Petrozavodsk bears the honorary title of the City of Military Glory. Here you can often see the aurora borealis.
Lake Onega, on the shore of which Petrozavodsk stands, is the second largest lake in Europe. Thanks to the system of rivers and canals, the city has access to five seas – the Black, Baltic, Caspian, Barents and White. The air here is clean and fresh, because Petrozavodsk is surrounded on almost all sides by forests. About 20% of all ethnic Karelians of the whole republic live here. There was never a tram network here, but there are buses and trolleybuses. Long before the founding of Petrozavodsk, ancient settlements existed here.
Here is the only monument to Lenin depicting the leader of the world proletariat, not with a fixed cap, but with a cap with earflaps. By climatic conditions, Petrozavodsk is equated to regions of the Far North. In all of Russia, Petrozavodsk is the only city named after Peter I. Eugene Onegin, the hero of the eponymous work by A.S. Pushkin, lived here, on the shores of Lake Onega. By area Petrozavodsk is equal to the largest of the swamps of Karelia. Not far from the city is the oldest volcano Girvas on our planet. The last time he erupted about 2 billion years ago. In the middle of the 19th century there was a lighthouse on the Petrozavodsk embankment, because it was unsafe to go on ships along the huge Lake Onega.
