Otradnoye, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast
For other uses, see Otradny (disambiguation).
Coordinates: 60°50′N 30°08′E / 60.833°N 30.133°E
Otradnoye (Russian: Отра́дное; Finnish: Pyhäjärvi Vpl. (Viipurin lääni, i.e. Vyborg region)) is a rural locality in Priozersky District of Leningrad Oblast and a station of the Saint Petersburg-Hiitola railroad, located on the Karelian Isthmus at the western shore of Lake Otradnoye (Lake Pyhäjärvi).
Before the Winter War and Continuation War it was the administrative center of the Pyhäjärvi municipality of Viipuri Province of Finland. It is birthplace of Karl Lennart Oesch (1892–1978).
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