Segezha

Segezha is a town and the place of job of Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It become founded as a railway station on Murmansk Railway in 1915. A small settlement grew across the station; it changed into granted city fame in 1943. The vicinity round Segezha held among the early camps inside the Soviet gulag system and become known as Segezhlag. Segezha nonetheless where Penal Colony 7 is positioned.

In June 2011, Mikhail Khodorkovsky changed into moved here to serve his sentence. Russian activist Ildar Dadin writes that they was tortured in this jail in September 2016. Within the framework of administrative divisions, Segezha serves as the workplace of Segezhsky District, to which it's far without delay subordinated. As a municipal department, the metropolis of Segezha is integrated inside Segezhsky Municipal District as Segezhskoye Urban Settlement.

Segezha is the region of the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill, one among the most important pulp and paper corporations in Russia. City is a huge human settlement. Cities commonly have significant structures for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density enables interplay between human beings, government groups and businesses, on occasion benefiting extraordinary parties inside the method.