Sortavala

Sortavala is a metropolis inside the Republic of Karelia, Russia. The district of Sortavala turned into first recorded in Swedish files relationship to 1468. Russian documents first point out it as Serdovol or Serdobol in 1500. It became ceded to Sweden after the Ingrian War. With the 1721 Treaty of Nystad, the settlement was joined to Russia at the side of the relaxation of Old Finland and changed into given the Russian name Serdobol.

It have become known for its marble and granite quarries which furnished materials vital for construction of imperial palaces in St. Petersburg and its neighborhood. In 1812, in conjunction with the relaxation of Viipuri Province, it was joined to the newly formed Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1917, the metropolis remained a part of unbiased Finland. It suffered substantially from mass Soviet bombardment during the Winter War, and via the Moscow Peace Treaty Finland become forced to cede the town to the Soviet Union.

All of the populace of the town became evacuated for the first time. Like the rest of Finnish Karelia, Sortavala changed into retaken by Finland for the duration of 1941–1944 and maximum evacuees returned to rebuild their houses. However, after the armistice of 1944, the Finns had been evacuated once more and the city turned into ceded again empty of populace. After the war, the metropolis was resettled by means of the Russian and Karelian population.