Lahdenpohja (Russian: Лахденпо́хья; Finnish and Swedish: Lahdenpohja; Karelian: Lahdenpohju) is a town and the administrative center of Lakhdenpokhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located 330 kilometers (210 mi) west of Petrozavodsk on the Aurajoki River.

The locals also called it Lopotti, a Russian loanword (see sloboda) referring to a built-up area smaller than a town.

Lakhdenpokhya is simply an alternate romanization of Лахденпохья, the Russian transcription of the Finnish name.

[citation needed] In the early 1990s, two granite blocks of a monument to local Finnish soldiers who died in 1918 were returned to the ruins of the church, and a memorial cross was erected.

In 2020, Ramiz Mubarizovich Kazymov, mayor of Lakhdenpokhya and a member of the United Russia party,[12] was deprived of his driver's license for drunk driving.