 |
| Year |
Events |
|
| 7000-6000 B.C. |
The beginning of Karelia inhabitance |
| 12-15 cc. |
Karelia is part of Novgorod feudal republic. |
| 1227 |
Baptizing of the Karelians |
| 1478 |
Karelia is included
in the Russian state |
| 1610-1611 |
Heroic defense of the town of Korela from the Swedish invaders |
| 1649 |
Olonets's foundation |
| 1703-1707 |
Building of Olonetsky Petrovsky plant system |
| 1773-1774 |
Foundation of Alexandrovsky (now Onezhsky) plant |
| 1861 |
Opening of a regular transport connection between Petrozavodsk and St.Petersburg. |
| 1869 |
Foundation of the first steam saw-mill in the region by the merchants Belyaevs in the settlement of Soroka (now the town of Byelomorsk). |
| 1914-1916 |
Murmansk railway road construction |
| November 1917 - April 1918 |
The Soviet power establishment |
| July 1918 - March 1920 |
Civil war and foreign intervention in the region |
| 8 of June, 1920 |
Establishment of Karelian Labor Commune |
| 25 of July, 1923 |
Establishment of Karelian ASSR |
| 1929 |
Konopozhskaya pulp and paper mill is the first enterprise of pulp and paper industry in Karelia |
| 31 of March, 1940 |
Karelian ASSR is reestablished into Karelian-Finnish SSR |
| June 1941 |
The Great Patriotic war broke off |
| December 1941 |
The Soviet troops seized the enemy attack on the territory of Karelia |
| June-September, 1944 |
Karelia was set free from German-Finnish aggressors |
| 16 of July,1956 |
Karelian-Finnish SSR was reestablished into Karelian SSR |
| 9 of August,1990 |
State Sovereignty of Karelian ASSR was adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Republic |
| 13 of November, 1991 |
Karelian ASSR was renamed into the Republic of Karelia |
