Petrozavodsk, a town of Russia, on the western shore of Lake Onega, 300 miles NE. of St Petersburg, has a cannon-foundry and small-arms factory, built in 1774 on the site of an iron-work started by Peter the Great in 1703. Pop. 11,027.
Petrozavodsk
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 101
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