Losevo, Railway station settlement in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
Losevo is a station settlement in the Romashkinskoye rural settlement of Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast, on the left bank of the Vuoksi and the western shore of Lake Sukhodolskoye. It lies on the A121 Sortavala road, 16 km from the settlement's administrative centre, and its railway platform stands 2 km from the village. The settlement sits beside the Losyevskaya channel, an artificial Vuoksi bed dug in the 19th century.
Kiviniemi was a village of the Sakkola municipality in Finland until 1939 and an important river port linked to Kamennogorsk, Priozersk and Solovyovo. The Saint Petersburg–Khiytola railway reached it in 1917, with a bridge over the rapids. In 1948 the central part of the village was renamed Losevo; the settlement was recorded under that name from 1 January 1949.
The name Kiviniemi translates literally as "Stone Cape"; in the 1948 renaming the central part of the village became Losevo, while the southern part became Varshko and the northern part, merged into Tikansaari, became Rechnoye. The settlement's streets include Gostinichnaya, Turggostinitsa and Ozernaya. The Losevo rapids host regular training sessions and competitions in canoe slalom, whitewater technique and rafting.
The settlement is accessible by regular train services that link it to larger cities in Leningrad Oblast. Visitors should know that rail travel is the main way to reach this location.
The place has two names: Losevo in Russian and Kiviniemi in Finnish, recording the historical Finnish presence in this border area. This dual naming reflects the location's long multicultural past.
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