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Mining, metallurgy, and timber working and processing
- The republic is only sparsely inhabited. Mining, metallurgy, and timber working and processing are the major industries. Others include power engineering, machine building, and food processing. Iron ore, copper, mica, titanium, and pegmatite are the chief minerals mined.
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Karelia's economy is based on forestry, mining, tourism, agriculture, fishing and the paper industry. Despite being 0,4% of Russia's population, 65–70% of all Russian trout is grown in the Republic, 26% of iron ore pellets , 20% of paper, 12% of wood pulp and cellulose.
Between January 2020 and January 2022 the exports of REPUBLIC OF KARELIA have increased by $117M (227%) from $51.6M to $169M, while imports increased by $20.9M (191%) from $10.9M to $31.9M.
Karelia is politically divided between Finland and Russia. The Republic of Karelia is a federal subject of Russia formed in 1991 from the Karelian ASSR. The Karelian Isthmus belongs to the Leningrad Oblast. The Finnish side consists of parts of the regions ( maakunta) of South Karelia, North Karelia and Kymenlaakso .
Dec 14, 2023 · Losing Finnish Karelia is certainly a loss for the political and economic development of Russia and its northwest, but the legacy of over two decades of interaction has left a strong institutional mark.
- Alexander Dalziel
Karelia, respublika (republic), far northwestern Russia. It is bordered to the north by Nenets, to the east by the White Sea, to the south by Lake Ladoga, and to the west by Finland. The capital is Petrozavodsk, on the western shore of Lake Onega. Karelia, Russia. Underlain by a part of the ancient rocks of the Baltic crystalline shield, the ...
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Apr 20, 2023 · In the first full year of the war, Karelia’s economy fell by more than 10 percent, five times as much as the Russian economy did as a whole. The center has not compensated Karelians for that...
Oct 17, 2016 · Preserving and developing the Karelian language could help with the economic development of Russian Karelia, according to Alexei Tsykarev, a member of the United Nations' Expert Mechanism on...
