a town of European Russia, capital of the government of Olonetz, stands on a bay on the west shore of Lake Onega, near the confluence of the small rivers Losossinka and Neglinka, 192 miles N.E. of St Petersburg. It is meanly built; but is the seat of the governor and of the archbishop of Petrozavodsk and Onega. There are six churches and several schools, an imperial cannon factory, employing about 700 hands, a copper foundry, and other manufactures. There are produced here nearly 3000 tons of iron annually, reckoned the best in Europe. The manufactures of the town are conveyed for sale to St Petersburg. Pop. (1849) 7567.