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Lodeynoye Pole is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Svir River (Lake Ladoga basin) some 244 km northeast of St. Petersburg. Geographic coordinates: . Population: 22,500 (2005 est.); 22,830 (2002 Census); 21,400 (1972).
Lodeynoye Pole, whose name means "the field of boats" in Russian, was founded in 1702 on the spot of the Mokrishvitsa village, where Peter the Great had established the Olonets Shipyard. In 1703, the first ship of the Baltic Fleet was built here —a 28-cannon frigate called Shtandart . In 1704, six more frigates, four shnyavas, four galleys, and 24 semi-galleys were constructed, which would form the first Russian squadron in the Baltic Sea. Over 400 sailboats and rowboats were built throughout the shipyard's existence. In 1785, Lodeynoye Pole was incorporated as a town.
The town was home to Lodeynoye Pole Air Base, which hosted an interceptor aircraft regiment during the Cold War. In Stalinist period (1930 s) there was infamous Soviet concentration camp Svirlag in Lodeynoye Pole (in the quarters of the former Alexander-Svirsky Monastery), were thousands of victims (to a great extent Russian Orthodox clergy) lost their lives.

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