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|Nation=[[File:Russia Flag - Nostra.png|20px]] [[Nostra:Russia|Russia]]
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|Population=30
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|Coordinates={{Coordinates|x=11072|z=-17591}}
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|Continent=Europe
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== Origins ==
== Origins ==
Sortavala (Rus. Сортавала / Сердоболь, Fin. Sortavala, Swe. Sordavala) is a town located in the centre of Russian Karelia's Ladoga Province, along Lake Ladoga and the River Sorty. It is the largest settlement in Karelia by land and population and is the fourth oldest after Petrozavodsk (Soviet Union), Viipuri (Finland) and Vyborg (Russia).
Sortavala (Rus. Сортавала / Сердоболь, Fin. Sortavala, Swe. Sordavala) is a town located in the centre of Russian Karelia's Ladoga Province, along Lake Ladoga and the River Yanisyoki (Fin. Jänisjoki). It is the largest settlement in Karelia by land and population and is the fourth oldest after Petrozavodsk (Soviet Union), Viipuri (Finland) and Vyborg (Russia).


== Infustructure ==
== Infustructure ==
Sortavala is defined by its spruce-stone embankments across her urban core, alongside her oxidized copper roofs which give the city a unique style.  
Sortavala is defined by its spruce-stone embankments across her urban core, alongside her oxidized copper roofs which give the city a unique style.  
The Town consists of 4 districts separated by bodies of water, being:
* Central Sortavala: The oldest and origin of the town which has became an island of sorts with the construction of a canal west of it, meeting with the Sorty and Ladoga.
* Sortyvostok: The lands of the town east of the Sorty
* Sortyzapod:  The lands of the town west of the Canals separating Central Sortavala from the rest of the land west of the Sorty.
* Sortyostrov: The formerly 2, now a single merged island incorporated in August to the Sortavala Urban core, located south of the centre on Lake Ladoga.
[[File:SortyRegional.jpg]]


=== Sortavala-Sosnovo Road ===  
=== Sortavala-Sosnovo Road ===