An ancient settlement existed in the area of the present settlement as early as the first millennium BC. Its traces were found in 1935 by the Finnish archaeologist Sakari Pälsi.
Vyartsilya was first mentioned in the salary books for 1499–1500 years, the village then numbered three courtyards and was part of the Vodskaya Pyatina of Novgorod Land.
In 1617, according to the Stolbovsky Treaty, the territory on which Vyartsilya was located was transferred by Russia to Sweden.
Later, the settlement became part of the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire. In 1834, a small sawmill was built. In 1851, a metallurgical plant was built in Vyartsilya on the site of a sawmill for melting lake and swamp iron ore (it works to this day, but cast iron and steel smelting is no longer produced). The Finnish engineering company Wärtsilä traces its history back to the creation of these enterprises.[7]
Since 1918, it has been part of independent Finland.
By the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 29.07.2014 No. 1398-r (ed. dated 24.11.2015) «On approval of the list of monotowns», it is included in the list of single-industry municipalities of the Russian Federation that have risks of deterioration of the socio-economic situation.[8]
The town—forming enterprise of the village is the Vyartsilsky hardware plant for the production of metal products (hardware): wire, nails, metal mesh. There is also a woodworking plant (sawmill) in the village.
There is a hotel and a club hotel for tourists.
Attractions
Railway station is an architectural monument of the late XIX century.[9]
Mass grave of 197 Soviet soldiers who died in July 1941 during the defensive battles of the Soviet-Finnish War (1941-1944). In 1979, a granite monument with a bas-relief image of grieving women was erected on the grave.[10][11]
Mass graves of Soviet prisoners of war shot by Finnish invaders in 1941–1942. Located 1.5 km from the village, on the left bank of the Yuuvanjoki River. In 1979, a stele of pink Ladoga granite was installed.[11]
A memorial sign erected in 1992 on the site of the former Lutheran church and the graves of Finnish soldiers who died during the wars of 1918, 1939-1940 and 1941-1944.[12]
Monument to V. I. Lenin at the entrance to the main entrance of the «Vyartsilsky hardware Factory» (sculptor G. Belyaev, installed in 1957).[13]
Monument to Nils Ludwig Arppe, founder of the «Vyartsilsky hardware Factory». The monument was opened on August 23, 1936, and consisted of a granite pedestal and a bust. After the war, the bust disappeared, and currently only the granite pedestal has been preserved (located opposite the settlement Administration).[14]
^ abФедеральная служба государственной статистики. Федеральное агентство по технологическому регулированию и метрологии. №ОК 033-2013 1 января 2014 г. «Общероссийский классификатор территорий муниципальных образований. Код 86 610». (Federal State Statistics Service. Federal Agency on Technological Regulation and Metrology. #OK 033-2013 January 1, 2014 Russian Classification of Territories of Municipal Formations. Code 86 610. ).
^"Памятник Нильсу Арппе". sortlib.karelia.pro (in Russian). Сортавальская межпоселенческая районная библиотека. Archived from the original on March 22, 2022.
^Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. Национальный состав населения по регионам России [All Union Population Census of 1979. Ethnic composition of the population by regions of Russia] (XLS). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года [All-Union Population Census of 1979] (in Russian). 1979 – via Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics.
Sources
Законодательное Собрание Республики Карелия. Закон №813-ЗРК от 1 ноября 2004 г. «О городских, сельских поселениях в Республике Карелия», в ред. Закона №1694-ЗРK от 2 апреля 2013 г. «О преобразовании муниципальных образований "Нюхчинское сельское поселение" и "Сумпосадское сельское поселение" Беломорского муниципального района и внесении изменений в некоторые законодательные акты Республики Карелия». Вступил в силу по истечении десяти дней со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: газета "Карелия", №124, 126, 129, 132, 135, 136, 139, 4 ноября — 9 декабря 2004 г. (Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia. Law #813-ZRK of November 1, 2004 On the Urban, Rural Settlements in the Republic of Karelia, as amended by the Law #1694-ZRK of April 2, 2013 On the Transformation of the Municipal Formations of "Nyukhchinskoye Rural Settlement" and "Sumposadskoye Rural Settlement" of Belomorsky Municipal District of the Republic of Karelia and on Amending Various Legislative Acts of the Republic of Karelia. Effective as of the day which is ten days after the day of the official publication.).
