Segezha (Russian: Сеге́жа; Karelian: Segeža; Finnish: Segeža) is a town and the administrative center of Segezhsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located 267 kilometers (166 mi) north of Petrozavodsk on the Segezha River and on the western shore of Lake Vygozero.

[citation needed] A small settlement grew around the station; it was granted town status in 1943.

[citation needed] The area around Segezha held many of the early camps within the Soviet gulag system and was known as Segezhlag.

In June 2011, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was moved here to serve his sentence.

[10] Russian activist Ildar Dadin writes that he was tortured in this prison in September 2016.