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Äänislinna

I do not know how many times it must be repeated, but during the "Continuation War 1941 - 1944" the orders from Finnish Government were clear, no changes in place names in occupied area are allowed in any form. Only the Karelian (and of course Finnish) names were allotted because all places had original Karelian / Finnish names. The name Äänislinna was a result of an Finnish Yleisradio (state controlled radio as British BBC) reporter who reported on the morning on October 1, 1941 the advance of Finnish troops to Petroskoi, in direct radio sending "that our troops are just marching into Äänisenlinnaan", (The Castle of Ääninen) in his patriotic radiosending. Thus the name came from spontanic individual person and spread quickly to common use in form Äänislinna. It was found very difficult to return to use Karelian Petroskoi, so Finnish Government decided to let the name be as it was. Finnish Government had nothing to do with the born of name Äänislinna. If claimed so, it is pure Russian propaganda. Koskenala, Lotinanpelto, Kontupohja, Karhumäki, Poventsa, Vitele and Aunuksenkaupunki remained as they were. When the military railway from Uuksu to Mäkriä 110 km was completed in 1943 the railway station of Aunuksenkaupunki (The Town of Aunus) was named Aunuksenlinna (Castle of Aunus) and this become the name of also Aunuksenkaupunki in general use. Thus the committee of Finnish names recommended also its use offically. From the Russian editor of this article it has remained unnoticed that from Karjalan Työkansan Kommuuni to Karjalais-Suomalalainen Autonominen Neuvostotasavalta and its later name versions had two offical languages, Russian and Finnish languages as long as the Soviet Union existed. In addition Suojujoki is quite far away from Lohijoki. Quite a Republic this Respublika Karelija where only Russian names are used for the main article. Petroskoi comes from Petrovskij zavod, which was pronounced to the Karelians as Petrovskoi zavotta. When a small tiny settlement was formed around the zavotta, which was founded in August 1703, the Karelians started to use of it the name Petrovskoi and later the v was dropped out to become Petroskoi which it is for Karelians, Finns and Estonians today. More than six million people use Petroskoi name. By the way this zavotta was founded on the mouth of Lohijoki which flows even today through Petroskoi. Lohijoki is in English language Salmon River. The Russian version of Lohijoki is meaningless Lososinka. Suolusmäki become Russian Sulazhgora, etc.

On January 1 / 14, 1913 there were 2.000 inhabitants at Aunus / Olonets and the total population of Petroskoi was only 14.000.

The Finnish Army left Äänislinna undisturbed without any battles and only next day the Red Army poured in Petroskoi.