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Gromovo Громово
Rural locality
Location of Gromovo
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Coordinates: 60°41′41″N 30°11′12″E / 60.69472°N 30.18667°E / 60.69472; 30.18667
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Leningrad Oblast
Elevation	70 m (230 ft)
Time zone	UTC+3 ( MSK  [1])
Postal code(s) [2]	188744
OKTMO ID	41639412101

Gromovo ( Russian: Гро́мово; Finnish: Sakkola) is a settlement in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, and a station of the Saint Petersburg-Kuznechnoye railway. Gromovo is situated on the northern shore of the Lake Sukhodolskoye, Karelian Isthmus, in the historic region of Karelia. Until the Winter War and the Continuation War, it had been the administrative center of the Sakkola municipality of Finland. It hosts an interceptor aircraft base, ( Gromovo (air base)).

It is located 18 km northwest of Sosnovo, and 90 km north of Saint Petersburg.

Notable people

• Hanna Granfelt (1884-1952), Finnish opera singer

References

External links

• Site about Sakkola municipality (in Finnish)

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