Live webcam overlooking the pedestrian crossing on Karl Liebknecht Street. Medvezhyegorsk is located in a picturesque area, it is definitely worth visiting Lake Onega and the famous Medvezhya Gora, as well as the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the pearl of Karelia - Kizhi Island, which can be reached by waterway from the Medvezhyegorsk region.
A few facts about Medvezhyegorsk:
- Medvezhyegorsk is located on the coast of Lake Onega, 152 km from the capital of the republic, Petrozavodsk. Once upon a time, the area on which this town is located was covered with impenetrable forests in which wild animals lived.
- The population of Medvezhyegorsk is about 14.3 thousand people.
- The settlement has existed since 1916, but it received the status of a city in 1938.
- In 1931, the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal started here. The administration of the grandiose construction site was located just in the village of Medvezhya Gora.
- From 1941 to 1944 the city was occupied by Finnish troops.
- In 1946, an invalid labor camp of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs was created in Medvezhyegorsk, subordinate to the GULAG.
- Vladimir Menshov's cult comedy Love and Doves was filmed here, in Medvezhyegorsk. The house where Vasily Kuzyakin lived with his wife Nadya and children Lenka, Lyudka and Olya was located on Nizhnyaya Street, house 12.
- The twin cities of Medvezhyegorsk are the Finnish city of Sotkamo and the Russian city of Mozhaisk.
- There are a lot of bear sculptures in Medvezhyegorsk. Perhaps, he is in first place in Russia in terms of the number of sculptures of this wild animal.
- There are restaurants and cafes in the city where you can taste local Karelian cuisine, for example, Lohikeito soup.
- The distance from Medvezhyegorsk to the Karelian city of Kondopoga is 110 km.