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Suoyarvi is a small town in the south of Karelia, 132 km from Petrozavodsk, the center of the Suoyarvi district of the republic. It received the status of a city in 1940, but the history of the settlement goes back several centuries. The town received its name from the name of the lake, on the shore of which it is situated. In translation from Karelian "Suojärvi" means "swampy lake". The found historical evidences speak that the people began to settle here in the XIV century. The first documentary mention of the settlement Kaipaa on the southern shore of the lake is dated 1500. Shuezersky pogost, located here, was an administrative and church center of the territory which united 9 villages. Till the beginning of the XVII century the pogost belonged to Russia. In 1617 Stolbovsky peace treaty was signed as a result of Russian-Swedish war. According to this document Shuesersk was given to Sweden and remained under Swedish control up to 1721. Then after the Great Northern War Russia received the territory of the Old Finland that became a Vyborg province in St.-Petersburg province. By the end of the XVIII century, thanks to the development of nearby territories, the number of pogost villages was 30. In Shuezerskaya volost mining was conducted, the ore extracted there was considered the best in the province. In 1811. Vyborg gubernia became a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland, which was part of the Russian Empire. A year later the territory was called kirkspiel - parish - Suojärvi. Since 1860s an active industrial development of lakeside settlements of Suojärvi began. Near Kaipaa a mining factory was built, which worked on local raw materials. Annually the factory processed up to 5.6 thousand tons of iron ore, producing almost 1000 tons of iron. The main deliveries of iron were made to the Alexandrovsky plant in Petrozavodsk. The mining plant worked until 1907, when due to economic crisis the enterprise was closed. Then a timber plant began to work, and the whole economy of Suojärvi began to develop in the direction of woodworking. After the Finnish Revolution in 1917. Finland gained independence. Until 1940 Suojärvi was the center of Suojärvi parish. In 1926 a cardboard factory was built here, which was the city-forming enterprise until the 1990s. During the Finnish War just in four months the Soviet army have built a strategically important object - the railroad Petrozavodsk-Suojärvi. Its construction was completed after the armistice with Finland. At the end of the war Suojärvi again found itself on the territory of the USSR. During the Soviet period the area was quite developed. In 1956 the railroad was prolonged to Porosozero. In Suojärvi were operating enterprises of different industries: timber industry, poultry farm, concrete plant, printing house. Now the population of the town is about 9 thousand people. It is one of the republican woodworking centers. Due to its natural riches, the area is well positioned for the development of recreation and eco-tourism.

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