Live webcam broadcasts a view of the Sports and Recreation Complex in the city of Medvezhyegorsk. Medvezhyegorsk is a small Karelian town on the shores of Lake Onega with a difficult and complex history. This is one of those places that elude the attention of tourists - few people come here on purpose, but the sights of Medvezhyegorsk are definitely worth spending a few days here.
Near the city there is the Medvezhya Gora railway station, which gave the name to this settlement. There is a legend that once upon a time the owner of a local sawmill named Zakharyev brought a little bear cub from the forest, which soon became the favorite of his wife. But once the already grown bear severely injured the hand of the adopted son of the Zakharyevs.
His beloved pet, reluctantly, had to be shot. He was buried with great honors at the foot of the mountain, which has since been called Bear. The wooden house in which the Zakharievs lived still stands in the city.
In Medvezhyegorsk there is a Karelskie Uzory factory, where products with Zaonezh embroidery are produced. In the shop of the same name, you can buy towels, tablecloths, napkins, aprons, curtains and other items with embroidery, as well as traditional souvenirs from Karelia.
The products of the Karelskie Uzory factory are also sold in Petrozavodsk. And in the Medvezhyegorsk Museum there is an exhibition "History and Modernity of Zaonezhskaya Embroidery", where samples from the factory are presented.
The main attractions of Medvezhyegorsk are the White Sea-Baltic Canal (BBK), a Finnish line of fortifications built here in 1942-1944. In the vicinity of Medvezhyegorsk there is a memorial complex Sandarmokh - the place of executions of prisoners during the Great Terror (1937-1938).
Technically, the White Sea Canal is a system of structures connecting Lake Onega with the White Sea. It made it possible to significantly shorten the route between the White Sea and the Baltic. However, the historical and cultural significance of this sight of Medvezhyegorsk is enormous, because it is also a monument to the victims of political repression and a place of terrible torment for hundreds of thousands of people.
The White Sea-Baltic Canal has a length of 227 km, of which 37 kilometers had to be dug, and 19 locks, 15 dams and 51 dams had to be built. The canal was built in record time - less than 2 years. More than 200 thousand prisoners of Belbaltlag took part in the construction, who worked in inhuman conditions and performed the entire gigantic volume of work without construction equipment. It was the first Soviet construction site of this scale, where prison labor was used, even the administration and engineers were prisoners.
Many of them died from cold, exhaustion or were killed - Belomorkanal has a reputation as a "construction site on the bones" and is a monument of the Soviet era. Nobody can tell the exact number of deaths on the White Sea Canal, historians call approximate figures of 40-50 thousand people.
Now the channel is mainly used for tourism purposes. It is too narrow and shallow to be used for freight transport. In the summer, tourists are offered excursions along the canal. You can see dams, dams and settlements along it.
Near the city there is the Medvezhya Gora railway station, which gave the name to this settlement. There is a legend that once upon a time the owner of a local sawmill named Zakharyev brought a little bear cub from the forest, which soon became the favorite of his wife. But once the already grown bear severely injured the hand of the adopted son of the Zakharyevs.
His beloved pet, reluctantly, had to be shot. He was buried with great honors at the foot of the mountain, which has since been called Bear. The wooden house in which the Zakharievs lived still stands in the city.
In Medvezhyegorsk there is a Karelskie Uzory factory, where products with Zaonezh embroidery are produced. In the shop of the same name, you can buy towels, tablecloths, napkins, aprons, curtains and other items with embroidery, as well as traditional souvenirs from Karelia.
The products of the Karelskie Uzory factory are also sold in Petrozavodsk. And in the Medvezhyegorsk Museum there is an exhibition "History and Modernity of Zaonezhskaya Embroidery", where samples from the factory are presented.
The main attractions of Medvezhyegorsk are the White Sea-Baltic Canal (BBK), a Finnish line of fortifications built here in 1942-1944. In the vicinity of Medvezhyegorsk there is a memorial complex Sandarmokh - the place of executions of prisoners during the Great Terror (1937-1938).
Technically, the White Sea Canal is a system of structures connecting Lake Onega with the White Sea. It made it possible to significantly shorten the route between the White Sea and the Baltic. However, the historical and cultural significance of this sight of Medvezhyegorsk is enormous, because it is also a monument to the victims of political repression and a place of terrible torment for hundreds of thousands of people.
The White Sea-Baltic Canal has a length of 227 km, of which 37 kilometers had to be dug, and 19 locks, 15 dams and 51 dams had to be built. The canal was built in record time - less than 2 years. More than 200 thousand prisoners of Belbaltlag took part in the construction, who worked in inhuman conditions and performed the entire gigantic volume of work without construction equipment. It was the first Soviet construction site of this scale, where prison labor was used, even the administration and engineers were prisoners.
Many of them died from cold, exhaustion or were killed - Belomorkanal has a reputation as a "construction site on the bones" and is a monument of the Soviet era. Nobody can tell the exact number of deaths on the White Sea Canal, historians call approximate figures of 40-50 thousand people.
Now the channel is mainly used for tourism purposes. It is too narrow and shallow to be used for freight transport. In the summer, tourists are offered excursions along the canal. You can see dams, dams and settlements along it.
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