Segezha (; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located north of Petrozavodsk on the and on the western shore of Lake Vygozero. Population:
History The town was founded as a railway station on Murmansk Railway in 1915. A small settlement grew around the station; it was granted town status in 1943. The area around Segezha held many of the early camps within the Soviet gulag system and was known as Segezhlag.
The Penal Colony 7 is located 4 km north of Segezha's center (). In June 2011, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was moved here to serve his sentence. Russian activist Ildar Dadin writes that he was tortured in this prison in September 2016.Ildar Dadin: deadly torture in Karelian prison The Independent Barents Observer AS, 2016
Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Segezha serves as the administrative center of Segezhsky District, to which it is directly subordinated.Law #871-RZK As a municipal division, the town of Segezha is incorporated within Segezhsky Municipal District as Segezhskoye Urban Settlement.Law #813-RZK
Economy Segezha is the location of the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill, one of the largest pulp and paper companies in Russia.
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