Belomorsk

Town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea. Population: 11,217 (2010 Census).
In the beginning it was a small village named Soroka (Соро́ка), or Sorotskaya (Сороцкая) in the official Russian Imperial statistics. On September 11, 1938, Soroka and several nearby localities were merged to form the town of Belomorsk. In 1941-1944, during World War II, it served as the temporary capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.