Karelia
Americannoun
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a region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, comprising Lake Ladoga and Onega Lake and the adjoining area along the E border of Finland.
noun
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a region of NE Europe comprising areas of both Finland and Russia. Following the Russo-Finnish War (1939–40) a large part of what had been Finnish Karelia was annexed by the former Soviet Union; together with the part of Karelia which already belonged to Russia at that time, it corresponds roughly to the modern Karelian Republic in Russia
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another name for the Karelian Republic
Example Sentences
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But it was more the economic rather than the military fallout that worried locals AFP talked to in the border region of North Karelia, once a four-hour drive from St Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
The virus strain discovered in Skåne appears to be more closely related to strains from Finland and Karelia than to the variants found in northern Sweden and Denmark.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2024
He has been serving time in isolation in a remote penal colony in Russia’s northwestern Karelia region.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024
Letters and official requests sent to prisons in Karelia and around St. Petersburg, as well as to Russia’s State Penitentiary Service, yielded no results, and Pivovarov’s whereabouts remain unknown, she said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 18, 2023
The Finns of Karelia are called Za-volok-ian, because they live beyond the volok or watershed.
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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