Impilahti (Russian: Импила́хти; Karelian: Imbilahti;[4] Swedish: Impilax) is a rural locality in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Ladoga near the Finnish border, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Petrozavodsk, the capital city of the Republic of Karelia.

Before World War II, the area belonged to Finland, after which it became part of the Soviet Union.

Minerals include granite, gneiss, amphibolite, slate, sand and gravel.

In the census salary book of the Vodskaya Pyatina of 1500, in the description of the Nikolsky Serdovolsky pogost of the Novgorod land, the following settlements are mentioned in the area of the current settlement: The first five villages at the time of the description belonged to the Karelian governor.

In 1617, under the terms of the Stolbovsky Peace Treaty, Impilakhti, along with the rest of the territory of the Korel uezd, became part of Sweden.

After the end of the Soviet-Finnish War (1939–1940), the settlement was transferred to the USSR, on July 9, 1940, it became part of the Pitkyarantsky district of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.