Live webcam overlooking the intersection of Dzerzhinsky - Solunin streets. Medvezhyegorsk is a pretty town located on the shores of Lake Onega. Until 1938 this place was called Medvezhya Gora, and the railway station where trains from Moscow, Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg stop are called so to this day.
Medvezhyegorsk, one of the industrial centers of Karelia, is located at the northwestern end of the Great Bay of Povenets Bay, at the mouths of the Kumsa and Vichka rivers, and is surrounded by picturesque rocks and sand and gravel hills covered with coniferous forests. An excellent ski resort of the same name is also open here.
During the Great Patriotic War, in the Medvezhyegorsk region, the hostilities of the Soviet and Finnish troops continued for almost three years. And in 1984 in Medvezhyegorsk the shooting of Vladimir Menshov's film "Love and Pigeons" took place. Also there were filmed "And trees grow on the stones", "Platinum 2" and "Piranha Hunt".
The main attraction of Medvezhyegorsk is the White Sea-Baltic Canal (BBK), which begins in the village of Povenets, located 24 km from the city (the object is guarded and photography is prohibited.).
In the city itself, it is worth visiting the building of the railway station (1916, architect - Rufin Mikhailovich Gabe), the building of the Office of the White Sea Canal of the NKVD of the USSR (1934), a mass grave, a memorial sign to the soldiers who died in the Chechen Republic.
The Medvezhyegorsk Regional Museum (address: Dzerzhinsky str., 22; tel .: (81434) 2-42-32) offers routes to the sites of ancient people and petroglyphs, and also shows an interesting exposition dedicated to the construction of the Belomor-Canal.
In addition, monuments of wooden architecture in the vicinity of the city are interesting: the Peter and Paul Church in the village of Virma (17-18 centuries) and the Nikolskaya Church (17-18 centuries) in Muozero, as well as a waterfall on the Vichka River and the tragic Sandormokh.
Sandormokh is a forest tract, a place of mass executions by the NKVD, 15 km from Medvezhya Gora and 19 km from the village of Povenets. Here, on an area of 10 hectares, in 1937-1938 over 9500 people of 58 nationalities were shot and buried. This is the largest burial place in the North-West of Russia for the victims of the Stalinist repressions of 1937-1938. Mostly, these were special settlers and prisoners from the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Solovetsky camps, as well as residents of neighboring villages. A total of 236 execution pits were found in this area. The executions were carried out in secret; the first graves of their victims were discovered in July 1997.