Ilyinsky, Republic of Karelia

Ilyinsky is a village in the Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, the administrative center of the Ilyinskoye rural settlement.

Geography

Ilyinsky is located 19 km west of Olonets, on the Olonka River, four kilometers east of the coast of Lake Ladoga.

History

The first known settlement on the territory of modern Ilyinsky was the village of Yuksila, mentioned in a land record of the Obonezhskaya Pyatina in 1651.
The modern settlement of Ilyinsky began developing after the establishment of a sawmill in 1927. In 1957, the villages of Goshkila, Kotchila, Margoyla, Rugoyla, Sloboda, Unoyla, Vinokurovo, Yuksila and Yakkoyla were consolidated with it. In 1962, the work settlement of Ilyinsky was formed, including the settlements of Antula, Ilyinskoye, Kuykka, Lesozavodsky, Nurmoyla, Stary Zavod, Ukrainka, Zivchala, and the Ilyinskaya railway station. Ilyinsky retained the status of an urban-type settlement until 1991.

Economy

Industry

OJSC “Pedigree farm ”Ilinskoe” is working in the village. Breeding specialization is dairy farming. The farm is the undisputed leader in the production of milk in the Republic of Karelia.

Stores

In the village there are such large retail chains as Pyaterochka, Magnit. There is an issue point of the Ozon online store.

Financial services

A branch of the Russian commercial bank Sberbank is located in the village.

Transport

Automobile communication

The highway 86K-8 Olonets-Pitkäranta-Leppyasylta passes through the village.

Railway

There is a railway station Ilyinskaya of the Volkhovstroevsky branch of the October Railway.

Education and culture

In 1954, the Kotchilsky rural library was opened. Works Alavoine secondary school, children's music school. In 2006, the Alavoine Municipal Institution, the Center for Club Initiatives, was established.

Historical monuments

Historical monuments are preserved in the village:

St. Nicholas Adriano-Andrusovsky Monastery
Mass grave of soviet soldiers who died during the Continuation War (1941-1944)
The grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Red Navy man A. I. Moshkin
Grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant Colonel V. N. Leselidze

Natural monuments

2 km northwest of the village there is a state regional swamp monument of nature — a swamp near the Olonka River with an area of 42.0 hectares, a typical swamp complex of the eastern coast of Lake Ladoga.In the vicinity of the village in the fields there is the largest parking lot of migratory birds in Northern Europe and the state landscape reserve "Andrusovo" — a specially protected natural area.