Concert square in Nadvoitsy in real time. The village of Nadvoitsy is located in the Segezha region of Karelia, on the Mainvolok peninsula, on the southwestern coast of Lake. Voitsky, in the north-west of Vygozero. The settlement was first mentioned in 1620 as Nadvoitsky Pogost, which belonged to the Solovetsky Monastery.
The name of the village arose due to the proximity of the Voitsky padun waterfall at the place of the entrance of the river. Lower Vyg in the lake. Voitskoe. Its noise - "howl" - is heard for tens of kilometers. Hence the name of the village "Nadvoitsy" as located "above the howl."
Not far from the settlement from 1742 to 1783. at the Voitsky mine, copper was mined, as well as the first gold in Russia.
In 1916, during the First World War, the strategically important Murmansk railway was built through Nadvoitsy. This construction made it possible to connect Petrozavodsk with Murmansk, to arrange the supply of military cargo to Russia from the Entente member states. The road was built at the expense of state funds by the forces of 170 thousand workers. After its commissioning, the accessibility of many territories of Vygozero increased.
The North began to actively explore and develop. One of the dozens of stations that arose was siding No. 21, later - the station "Nadvoitsy". Before its appearance, it was possible to get to the village only along the Sumy tract - the road of pilgrims from Povenets to the Solovetsky Islands.
In Soviet times, began a massive colonization of the region. In the 20s north of Nadvoitsy on the bank of the river. Nizhny Vyg appeared timber industry and the village "Red Colonist". In 1929-30. in Nadvoitsy, a branch of the Elephant was formed, later the White Sea-Baltic camp arose here. His prisoners from 1931 to 1933 built the White Sea-Baltic Canal (BBK) - the famous White Sea Canal, connecting the White Sea with Lake Onega. The length of this waterway was 227 km.
The BBK also passed through the village of Nadvoitsy: the river was blocked here. Nizhny Vyg, thanks to the dam, the water in Vygozero rose by 6.5 m. A year after the completion of construction, a pier appeared on the lake for handling cargo transported by the BBK.