Khiytola

Khiytola (Russian: Хийтола; Finnish: Hiitola) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia.

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Coordinates: 61°14′24″N 29°41′21″E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Republic of Karelia
Time zone	UTC+3 (UTC+03:00 ^[1])
Postal code(s)^[2]	186700
OKTMO ID	86618433101

History

The Finnish name of the settlement (Hiitola) derives from "Hiisi", the name of a forest spirit in the Karelian-Finnish mythology.^[3]

Before the Winter War it was a municipality of the Viipuri Province of Finland.

During World War II, the settlement was captured by forces of VII Corps (Hägglund) on 11 August 1941 and came under Finnish occupation.^[4]^: 839 With the Moscow Armistice of 1944, the town's continued allegiance to the USSR was confirmed.

References

[1]
"Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
[2]
Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
[3]
Андрей Сыров. "Забытые достопримечательности западной части Карельского перешейка. Путеводитель". Издательство "Центрполиграф", Санкт-Петербург, 2012. Стр. 330
[4]
Ueberschär, Gerd R. (1983). "Kriegführung und Politik in Nordeuropa". In Boog, Horst; et al. (eds.). Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Vol. 4. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. pp. 810–882. ISBN 3421060983.
[5]
Расписание электричек по станции Хийтола (in Russian). Yandex. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

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