Russia
NW Russia
Karelia

Sortavala

Sortavala is a small town along the northern shores of Lake Ladoga in . It is a popular starting point for those heading out into the Karelian wilderness. This article also covers the neighbouring municipality of Ruskeala.
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  • Type: Town with 18,800 residents
  • Description: town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia
  • Also known as: “Sordavala” and “Sorravala”
  • Address: Сортавальский район

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sortavala and Winter’s dacha (Sortavala).

Railway station
Photo: Murtazin Shamil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Manor estate
Photo: Serge Kolyzhev, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a manor estate.

Church
Photo: Tnataxn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Khelyulya and Khelyulya.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the , , located on the Tokhma River, 278 kilometers west of , the capital of the republic. is situated 5 km north of Sortavala.

Village
Photo: Scaut2002, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 4 km north of Sortavala.

Village
Photo: Scaut2002, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Sortavala.

Sortavala

Latitude
61.7027° or 61° 42′ 10″ north
Longitude
30.6912° or 30° 41′ 28″ east
Population
18,800
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
9GHGPM3R+3F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1858201567
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
490466
Wiki­data ID
Q196397
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Sortavala” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سورتافالا”
  • Armenian: “Սորտավալա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sortavala”
  • Bashkir: “Сортавала”
  • Basque: “Sortavala”
  • Belarusian: “Сартавала”
  • Belarusian: “Сортавала”
  • Bulgarian: “Сортавала”
  • Catalan: “Sórtavala”
  • Cebuano: “Sortavala”
  • Chechen: “Сортавала”
  • Chinese: “Sortavala”
  • Chinese: “索尔塔瓦拉”
  • Chinese: “索爾塔瓦拉”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sortavala”
  • Czech: “Serdobol”
  • Czech: “Sordavala”
  • Czech: “Sortavala”
  • Danish: “Sordavala”
  • Danish: “Sortavala”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sortavala”
  • Dutch: “Sortavala”
  • Esperanto: “Sortavala”
  • Estonian: “Sortavala”
  • Finnish: “Sortavala”
  • French: “Sortavala”
  • Galician: “Sortavala”
  • Georgian: “სორტავალა”
  • German: “Sordavala”
  • German: “Sortawala”
  • Greek: “Σορταβάλα”
  • Hebrew: “סורטאוואלה”
  • Hebrew: “סורטוולה”
  • Hungarian: “Szortavala”
  • Inari Sami: “Sortavala”
  • Italian: “Sortavala”
  • Japanese: “ソルタヴァラ”
  • Karelian: “Sordovala”
  • Karelian: “Sortavala”
  • Korean: “소르타발라”
  • Latin: “Sortavala”
  • Latvian: “Sortavala”
  • Livvi: “Sortaval”
  • Macedonian: “Сортавала”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sortavala”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sortawala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sortavala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sortavala”
  • Norwegian: “Sordavala”
  • Norwegian: “Sortavala”
  • Ossetian: “Сортавалæ”
  • Persian: “سورتاوالا”
  • Polish: “Sortawała”
  • Portuguese: “Sortavala”
  • Russian: “Sordavala”
  • Russian: “Sortavala”
  • Russian: “Сердоболь”
  • Russian: “Сортавала”
  • Russian: “Со́ртава́ла”
  • Serbian: “Сортавала”
  • Slovak: “Sortavala”
  • Slovenian: “Sortavala”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سورتاوالا”
  • Spanish: “Sortavala”
  • Swedish: “Sordavala”
  • Tagalog: “Sortavala”
  • Tajik: “Сортавала”
  • Talysh: “Sortavala”
  • Tatar: “Сортавала”
  • Turkish: “Sortavala”
  • Ukrainian: “Сортавала”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sortawala”
  • Veps: “Sortaval”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sortavala”
  • “Sordavala”
  • “Sortavala”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sortavala”. Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.