What is famous for the Karelian city of Segezha?

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“Guberniya Daily” continues the new project “What to do here?”, within the framework of which Evgenia Volunkova and photographer Andrei Myagkov spend weekends in cities and large settlements of our republic. We want to understand how people relax where there seems to be nothing to do. Cafes, discos, parks, clubs, cinemas and libraries. Suoyarvi, Lahdenpohja, Segezha and Pudozh - we will visit everywhere and tell you everything. After Kondopoga, our destination was the city of Segezha.

Brief information

Segezha is located in the central part of Karelia, two hundred and seventy kilometers from Petrozavodsk. The population is about thirty thousand people. The main street is Sovetov Boulevard. A bridge over the railway tracks divides the city into two parts - the Old Town and the Microdistrict. The old town is beautiful, with many cultural sites. And the Microdistrict is like a microdistrict. The heart of the city is the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill, which is still in relatively good health.

Segezha

Segezha is a city located on the northwestern coast of Lake Vygozero, 267 kilometers from Petrozavodsk.
The administrative center of the Segezha district, the basis of the city's economy is the pulp and paper industry. Object category (river, mountain system, forest, etc.): city. Location: located on the northwestern shore of Lake Vygozero at the confluence of the Segezha River, 267 km from Petrozavodsk. Area: 19 km²

History of the city Edit

Celebrating Segezha's anniversary5

The name of the city comes from the word sees, which translated from Karelian means “bright or clean”6. Initially, this area was inhabited by the Sami, a small Finno-Ugric people, and from the 12th century Karelians and Russians appeared here. 1694 in Segezha was marked by the appearance of a monastery and several hermitages1. Then, at the beginning of the 19th century, the predecessor of the current administrative unit Vygozerskaya volost was formed in this territory, which included three peasant communities. In 1914, in connection with the construction of the Murom railway, the Segezha station appeared, and in 1928 the Segezha district was formed7.

Changes in the history of the station occurred in the early 1930s, when, as a result of the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (White Sea-Baltic Canal), the nearby village of Mayguba was flooded. The primary timber processing plant located there was moved to Segezha, and a year later it began producing its first products. In 1935, construction of the first residential buildings and a timber and paper mill began in the vicinity of the station, 3 years later the first school opened its doors, and in 1939 the industrial center of the settlement - the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill (PPM). Segezha was granted city status in 19437.

What to see in Segezha Edit

The city is famous for its pulp and paper mill, an industrial enterprise that produces about 400 thousand tons of cellulose, 300 thousand tons of high-strength wrapping paper and over 500 million paper bags per year2.

Other attractions include:

Trinity Church.

The church is 30 m high and seats about 450 people. This Orthodox church began to be built in 2009, and was later consecrated in honor of the icon of the Mother of God and the Holy Life-Giving Trinity.

Trinity Church. Photo source: VKontakte Community SEGEZHA DECINERY OF KOSTOMUKSHA DIOCESE 3

War memorial.

A mass grave in which Soviet soldiers who died in 1941-1945 are buried, and a detachment of railway workers who died defending the station in 1919.

Voitsky bastard.

A natural monument located on the river. Nizhny Vyg. Previously, a copper mine was located not far from it, and the waterfall itself was about 4 m high and consisted of 3 branches. Today, only the most powerful of them remains - the Sredinnaya Pad (or Spruce Sleeve).

Museum Center.

Opened in 1999 on the basis of a local history museum. It contains everything that has to do with the history of Segezha and the surrounding area of the city.

Curious facts about Segezha Edit

1. During the Second World War, ammunition was produced at the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill7.

2. Next to the Culture and Leisure Center in 2021, a “Nurse” monument was erected. It is dedicated to the feat of medical workers during the Great Patriotic War.

Monument to a nurse in Segezha1

3. In the area of Segezha (village of Nadvoitsy), traces of several settlements dating back to the Stone Age were discovered8.

Walks

— In my childhood, Segezha was still a city of “boy clans”: districts and even courtyards were hostile against each other. If you accidentally wandered into someone else’s territory, you could easily get a scoreboard,” recalls former Segezha resident Andrei A. “In our yard on the street. Spiridonov, for example, had his own clan. There was a rocking chair in the yard, everyone went there, so they were afraid of us. It was scary to walk into the Old Town in the evening along the paths across the railway tracks. A gang of “redheads” was on duty in the area - red-haired brothers who took money. If you get caught by the “saffron milk cap,” you’re considered lost. Shakes out money and kicks. If you resist, they will beat you.

Another resident of Segezha, Alexey P., also talks about the clans.

“I remember we always developed a whole plan for how to get past the “saffron milk caps”... One evening, we were sneaking back home. There wasn't a lot of money, but it was still a pity. We had almost crossed the bridge when we ran into some boys. I shouted: “Dvorami! We’re leaving through the yards!” and we ran as fast as I’ve ever run. Then they left. And my friends then saw me for a long time and mocked me, shouting: “We’re leaving through the yards!”

Now there are no more clans. In Segezha, even on weekends it is quiet and, it seems, calm.

Once upon a time in Segezha, in the Old Town, there was a notable Park of Culture and Leisure. It could boast a cool, by Karelian standards, “roller coaster” and many other attractions. The whole city, young and old, came here for a walk. Have fun on the carousel, eat ice cream, read a book on a bench... Today all that remains of the park is a children's slide in the shape of an elephant and two yellow giraffes between trees of unknown purpose. The benches are dilapidated, the bushes are overgrown. The only surviving sculpture of a moose cow with a calf at the back is decorated with white zebra stripes. And yet some continue to go to the park. Out of habit or simply because there is nowhere else to go. Someone drinks beer on a bench behind the bushes, hiding away from prying eyes, someone just sits and thinks about something.

Not far from the park, opposite the cinema, there is a good playground. Nearby, despite the bad roads, children rollerblade and ride bicycles. By the way, about the roads. Our guide, Segezhan Artem, told how one day the mayor came out to people and offered to chip in to repair a very bad part of the road. “There is no money,” the mayor admitted. “Let’s do it ourselves!” And people chipped in.

Today, a good place for walking is “lesokulturka” - a forested park area behind the city sports complex. In winter you can ski there, and in summer you can run, walk and feed squirrels. In Soviet times there was even a large swing boat.

People also walk along the green Katanandova Alley. In the center there is a fountain with benches where you can sit. It's just a pity that the fountain doesn't work. Like no other in Segezha.

Segezhan residents also like to hang out near the new station, the architecture of which stands out from the general background. By the way, at the station there is a free toilet, even if the doors don’t close. We saw another toilet, not far from the station, on the main street. For some reason, the booth is located behind a mesh metal fence. “This is where the janitors store their shovels,” Artem wasn’t joking.

Eat and drink

Despite the fact that Segezha residents say that they eat exclusively at home, in my opinion, there are enough places to eat in little Segezha.

Directly opposite the station, in a two-story building that used to be a fish store, there is now a new Panarama bar. When asked why “Panarama” is spelled with an “a,” the waiter explained that they once made a mistake and did not correct it, turning it into a “trick.” “Panaram” is cozy and has a good view from the window. The menu is varied: from beer and pizza to puree soups and even rolls. About the “panoramic” rolls, local resident Alexey said that he was afraid to eat them - “it’s not clear who rolls them there.” Prices are equal to the capital's average, but they don't bite. We tried the Margherita pizza - it was quite good.

Another place where you can have lunch is the Vyg cafe-bar in the Old Town on Grazhdanskaya Street. Segezhan residents say that the interior there is very nice and the food is delicious. We didn’t go to “Vyg”, but we did look into “Bear’s Corner”. This is a recently opened bar in the Segezha hotel complex on the outskirts of the city. The interior is in the Karelian style, there is a stuffed bear in the corner, and ducks on the ceiling. Lunches, dinners and alcohol - everything is here.

Right there in the complex there is a cafe “Segezha”. You can dine here during the day and dance here at night.

Recently, Sushi City opened in the Microdistrict, on the main street. “There,” said Alexey, “you can eat sushi: the Koreans stand and spin it.” You can buy it to take with you, or you can eat it right there. Prices are the same as in Petrozavodsk.

But the confectionery “Irya”, where Andrei A. ran to get delicious eclairs as a child and where we also headed in the hope of enjoying it, no longer exists. And also, according to our guide Artem, there was a place called “Metso” where they fed very well. Now there's a pharmacy there.

In Segezha one thing is very easily and quickly replaced by another. There was a city bathhouse - it became the Bank of Moscow, and more recently - VTB-24. There was a children's clinic - now a Dixie store, and instead of the Children's World, which half the city once went to, there is now a furniture store.

There are also several kebab shops in the city. One of them is on the road to the Culture Park. And shops that sell pies. For example, opposite the House of Culture, in the square there is a large selection of flour products and there are even a couple of tables to sit and eat. According to Alexey, canteens are popular: the recently opened “People’s Canteen” and those located on the territory of the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill and LDK.

What is famous for the Karelian city of Segezha?

The city lies on the banks of the Segezha River at its confluence with Vygozero. It was the waters of the river and lake (light and clean!) that determined the fate of this regional center of the Republic of Karelia. But this happened in the first third of the last century. And before that...

Before that... it’s even hard to say what these places were called! Because the Sami lived here until the 13th century. The Karelians, and the linguistic basis of the Segezha toponym is the Karelian language, appeared in the vicinity of the present city later. And Russian settlers came after the Karelians. But among the endless northern forests and swamps, just a century ago, there were very, very few of them.

This is how the researcher-ethnographer S.N. Sokolov, who visited the Povenets district of the Olonets province in 1904 with a scientific expedition, described Segezha: “This village, if you can call it that... consists of one house, the inhabitant of which is a Korel under the name of Judas, with the family. Thanks to the advantageous location of his house on a large rafting river and thanks to the abundance of animals, birds and fish in the surrounding area, as well as water meadows, his family is always provided with everything necessary and does not suffer great need. The only inconvenience of this village is the almost complete absence of roads to it.”

Not that much, but the situation changed with the outbreak of the First World War. The Black Sea straits were controlled by the bloc of the Central Powers, therefore, in order to receive military assistance from the Entente countries in the volumes that warring Russia needed, it was necessary to urgently build a railway to the north. Towards the future Murmansk. Naturally, the task was difficult. But archivally important! Therefore, already on November 2 (15), 1916, temporary traffic opened along the entire length of the road - from St. Petersburg to Murmansk. Or, as it was called then - before Romanov-on-Murman. One of the stations on this strategic highway was little Segezha.

The economic geography of this part of Karelia changed very much in the early 30s of the last century, when construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal began. The village of Mayguba also fell into the future flood zone. Accordingly, the Maygub timber mill had to be relocated to Segezha in 1932. This is how a forest component appeared in its economy.

Probably, already taking this factor into account, in 1935, when the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a program for the development of the country's pulp and paper industry, it was decided to build a timber and chemical plant in Segezha. And not the least role in this was played by the clean, bright waters near which the city stands. You can’t cook cellulose without them!

Just four years later, on July 1, 1939, the first stage of the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill (PPM) was put into operation. True, the beginning of the Great Patriotic War forced the wallets to partially reorient themselves and switch to the production of mines and mortars so necessary for the front. But they didn’t forget about the paper itself. By May 1943, the first Segezha cellulose was cooked. And even several rolls of kraft paper were produced! And in November of the same year, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, the workers' village of Segezha received a new, higher status. Thus began the history of the city of Karelian wallets.

Since then, Segezha has been inseparable from the pulp and paper mill. Even at the entrance, from the M18 “Cola” highway (St. Petersburg-Murmansk), especially if the wind is from the city, the smell of methyl mercaptan (methanethiol) is clearly felt. And this is despite the fact that from the federal highway to Segezha there are still 12-14 km to the east, along a turnoff. Can you imagine how the city stinks?! And the people of Segezh - it’s like nothing. They are familiar people. In the 90s, when the plant stood still more than it worked, they even joked about methyl mercaptan: “It’s money that smells!” Like, if it smells, it means the plant, and with it the whole city, is working. But, in general, it is customary to pay for work.

Although, of course, not the entire city works at the plant. Even in more prosperous Soviet times, in addition to the plant, the city had a timber industry, timber, state farm, and poultry farm. Many of them are no longer there. The same poultry farm. Today this is one of the outlying microdistricts of the city, in which a few residential buildings remain. But here, on Leygubskaya Street - “Correctional Colony No. 7”. In which, until recently, the most famous prisoner in all of Russia was imprisoned. Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky. Thank God, he is no longer sitting.

But even without him there were always enough prisoners in Segezha and its environs. In those days they joked: “Those who work at the plant live in Segezha; those who sit and those who guard those who sit.” Correctional colonies, you need to understand, are specific, secure institutions. They won't just let us in there. Permission must be issued. Is it necessary?

Maybe it’s better to see the main attraction of Segezha - the pulp and paper mill? And with it - the city itself. In Segezha, the plant and the city are twin brothers. And what kind! There are areas of their life together in which both of them are Siamese twins. When you start dividing, it hurts!

Of course, we also have passes to the plant, but we do it from behind the fence.

As we entered the city along the turnoff that leads to Segezha from the Kola highway, we left the DRSU behind and jumped out onto the entrance ring with a welcome monument - "Segezha", we - to the right, towards Antikainen. At the Trinity Church, which is already familiar to us, along the main one, we go left to Sovetov Boulevard, along it to the road bridge, which is over the railway tracks, which, when the plant is working, are completely filled with wagons with timber. And under the bridge, on the left, on Spiridonov, there is a new small railway station of original architecture built by Russian Railways. With a glass roof, which is diagonally (to the north, there is a lot of snow, so let most of it roll off the glass itself) covers a round brick pedestal, rising like the tower of a medieval castle, above the main part of the building.

We rolled off the bridge and, after standing at a traffic light for a moment, drove into the main square. To the left is the Wallet Culture Palace, to the right is the City Administration building. Directly - the corner of Mir and Sovetskaya with a characteristic Stalinist Empire style house: large, arched, lancet windows framing their false semi-columns along the entire front facade. If we turn left, between this building and the Bumazhnikov Palace of Culture, we will jump out to the former Pobeda cinema, next to which there is a monument to the Karelian partisans. The partisans were “armed” with a weapon traditional for this type of monument - the Shpagin submachine gun (PPSh). But! A very rare item. The partisan's PPSh does not have a drum disk, but a horn magazine.

But if we go to the plant, we turn right from the traffic light, past the Administration buildings, the Vyg Hotel, along the street. Lenin, at the very beginning built up with wooden two-story houses, in the courtyards of which goats often graze in the summer, and here it is... Zavodskaya. Passage of pulp and paper mill. To the left of which, a sad monument to the former Soviet plant, is the unfinished building of the administrative building. We started building it in the late 80s, yes... We didn’t have time!

The factory workers didn’t manage to do a lot of things back then. But despite this, the chimneys of the pulp and paper mill are smoking. And the city smells disgustingly of methyl mercaptan. Although the smell... Just like the color, it is difficult to find a comrade. Segezhans say that this is what money smells like.

So let the plant smoke. And people in Segezha will have work. Accordingly, there is prosperity in their homes. And the city itself, famous for its wrapping paper, has a future.

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Night life

Calling Segezha’s nightlife vibrant is like calling a giraffe an elephant. And yet it is there. And even in different places. For example, discos are held in the House of Culture. Now, however, it’s not the season, so I didn’t have a chance to take a look.

You can also dance at the Vyg bar. There is both music and interior - everything is conducive to relaxation. In addition to the table ordering system. Recently, you can only get into Vyg on a Saturday night by booking a table. The cost of the reservation is two thousand rubles. Of course, you then “turn” this money into food and drink, but if you just want a glass of champagne, there’s nothing to do at Vyg.

“In Vyga, scantily clad girls, go-go dancers, have recently started dancing on the bar counter,” said Alexey. “When they first appeared, the men were stunned and shoved money at them. Now we’re used to it, there’s less excitement.

By the way, many people come here late at night to eat after dancing at Segezha (a cafe in the Segezha complex, which at night turns into a bar with a dance floor). The photographer and I decided to relax at Segezha: the disco there lasts until two o’clock in the morning, and it’s quite possible to sit out until the end.

We booked a table by phone - free of charge. They paid one hundred and eighty rubles for entry. By Segezha standards, this is expensive. On regular weekends (not holidays and when foreign DJs don’t come), admission can cost up to one hundred and twenty rubles.

The disco hall is decent, but something is not right about it. “It looks like a dining room,” Alexey helped me figure out. Similar But the service is very friendly and fast - not cafeteria style. The dance floor lighting is good. And some amazing bar that has everything.

“Once a friend from St. Petersburg came to visit me,” says Alexey. - I took him here. And he told the bartender some sophisticated cocktail. And he took it and made it. And served it as it should. The friend was shocked.

The alcohol menu is, however, rich. The eye lingered on the cost of fifty grams of champagne: 27 rubles. That is, the standard hundred is 54 rubles.

According to Alexey, we were lucky. There are a lot of people, mostly young people, because students and guests have not yet managed to go home. Two weeks ago there was a completely different contingent here – more mature and less cheerful.

It was precisely because the young people had not left yet that DJs came from Petrozavodsk. Four people lined up behind the control panel and worked, leaving us to guess which of them was helping whom and with what. The music is a mixture of disco house and pop. Plus the slow ones. Nothing special, but everything is for the people.

In general, all visitors must be given their due: I didn’t see any very drunk or aggressive people. This is an ordinary disco, except perhaps not long. We, however, left before the “end”. By the way, here, on the first floor, we found a bowling alley.

Sport

Segezha has always been a very sporty city. Was. Now people may not have lost interest in sports, but the situation with sports itself is worse than it was fifteen years ago.

“The sports stadium took twenty years to build,” says Andrey A. “We started construction, then froze it.” At some point, they managed to make treadmills with a rubberized coating. And people slowly took them to their dachas. Either dilapidated or unfinished, the stadium stood there for many years. Then the money appeared, and we decided to finish this city long-term construction...

The long-suffering stadium is located next to the Segezha Hotel. And here is the Sports Palace, built by the plant.

“In my childhood, this was perhaps the most popular building in the city,” Andrey recalls. “People went there with their families after work and on weekends. A gym, then a swimming pool... I don’t know if there’s anything left there now?

Left. Both the pool and the gym are open. There are also basketball, football and volleyball courts. Alexey visits there often. He says he likes it. True, as many people as before no longer go to the Sports Palace. Maybe the morals are different?

Also in Segezha, in the building of the Cinema and Youth Center, there is a synthetic ice skating rink. Small, like a child's one. Skates are included. But people are reluctant to go. “First one, then two people ride,” they told us on duty.

In general, Segezha residents run, ski and slide, play football and hockey. As Alexey said: “In Segezha you can play sports around the clock.” Which is basically what he does.

Culture and stuff

We were very surprised, but there is a cinema in Segezha. Of course, there is no rich repertoire, but some of the films that are shown in Petrozavodsk can be seen.

We looked into the hall. The first four rows are wooden chairs from childhood. The rest are soft and new.

— This is a VIP area for you, and are wooden chairs cheaper? - I ask the ticket taker.

“No,” the woman answered. - The price is one. There just wasn’t enough money for all the chairs...

Projectionist Lyudmila Kapranova, who worked at the cinema for thirty-nine years, said that people are gradually losing interest in cinema.

“When there are thirty people in the hall, we shout “hurray,” the woman shared.

According to Lyudmila, the cinema will not be closed. And you can’t: “Where will people go then?” The projectionist also said that the old system of working with schools, when children were given subscriptions to films and cartoons during the holidays, has still been preserved.

— A subscription for five films costs 120 rubles. Great, right? I wish I had some new equipment...

We also asked Lyudmila, who draws movie posters? It turned out to be some special artist whose name she did not mention. Our guide Artem smiled when I started talking about handwritten posters: “In my opinion, the same person has been drawing them since my childhood!”

Popcorn is sold in the cinema lobby and there is an entertainment area for children. Several iron animals, saved from destruction from the Park of Culture and Recreation, huddled in the corner. They don't work, they just stand there "for show."

In addition to discos, the House of Culture hosts dance classes and various clubs. Marriages are registered here, the local theater performs here, and musicians sometimes come here for concerts. They say that when something happens in a cultural center, the halls are full.

As for the shops, there are large shopping malls, not far from the bridge. The rest are small industrial goods stores and standard Dixie grocery stores with Magnets.

“There are families who get together and go to Petro or Sigma for groceries a couple of times a month and stock the refrigerator,” says Artem. “But for me, everything can be bought here.”

We didn't visit the city library. But when they asked Artem how many people come here to buy books, they were surprised that the family of our second guide, Dmitry, last year took second place in the number of visits to the library.

“There are still those who love books,” Dima laughed modestly.

Segezha, Karelia

Segezha is a city in Karelia, located in its central part, on the shore of Lake Vygozera, in the place where the Segezha River flows into it. Actually, due to its location at the mouth of this river, the city got its name.

Sights of Segezha

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when mentioning this city is a large pulp and paper mill. In fact, 30,000 Segezhan residents live around it. At the beginning of the last century, it was a tiny village, then a railway station was formed here, and during the construction of the White Sea Canal, enterprises were moved from the flood zones to Segezha, so that an industrial city gradually formed.

Actually, the town itself is not of great tourist value, since it has almost no attractions. Travelers use it rather as a kind of transit point, from where they can go to various points in Karelia.

In half a day spent in Segezha, you can explore it all. Of interest is the museum center, founded on the basis of the local history museum in 1999.

Tourists may also be interested in the complex of monuments from the Great Patriotic War, located not far from the city.

And there is no way to ignore the Voitsky Padun waterfall - it is located on the Nizhny Vyg River. Previously, it was tall and impressive - its height reached 4 meters. But today the waterfall is not so spectacular. When the dam was built on Nizhny Vyg and the water level in Vygozero rose, the height of the waterfall decreased. However, he retained some of his former power and strength. And, as in all of Karelia, it is stunningly beautiful thanks to the picturesque nature.

Also, if you are a lover of ethnography and history, take a look at the village of Nadvoitsy. Neolithic sites of ancient people are still preserved here. It's also not far from here to the old copper mine.

How to get to the city of Segezha, Karelia?

Segezha is located 264 kilometers from Petrozavodsk (M18 highway). From Murmansk to Segezh the distance is about 700 kilometers along the same route. From Moscow to Segezh – 1206 km along route P5. From St. Petersburg to Segezh – 672 km along the M18 highway.

You can also get to Segezha by train. There are two trains from Moscow to Murmansk (242A and 016A). Segezha is on the way. Travel time by train from Moscow to Segezh will take approximately 22-23 hours. From St. Petersburg - 12-13 hours.

Rest in the city of Segezha

If you want to stay in the city, you can relax in one of its hotels:

“Home” – from the category of inexpensive hotels, it belongs to the apartment type, that is, guests settle in comfortable apartments with hot water and heating;
“Vyg” – located in a four-story building on the 3rd and 4th floors, there are rooms with amenities, as well as an option for amenities per block, the hotel accommodates 42 guests in total;
hotel-type dormitory "Rosto" - at the driving school, with simple but comfortable rooms, hotel capacity - 22 people;
mini-hotel "Gorodovoy" - a hotel with three rooms with a sauna, a common living room and a kitchen.

Climate of Segezha region

In the Segezha municipal district, the center of which is the city of Segezha, the climate is temperate continental with some maritime features. There are steady frosts here for four months, the coldest month of the year is January, when the temperature reaches -46°C. The warmest month is July with a maximum temperature of +35°C.

High air humidity is explained by the presence of a large number of rivers and lakes in the region. There are often fogs here, with an average of 500 mm of precipitation per year. The soils here are of podzolic type with low fertility. The vegetation is predominantly coniferous.

General impression of the city

The myth that “Segezha stinks” is not a myth. Segezha greeted us with the smell of “dead jerboas,” which the wind sometimes brings from the plant. But on the second day of our stay in the city there was no smell - either the wind “turned away”, or we got used to it.

It’s eerie in Segezha on a gloomy evening. Maybe the stories about “saffron milk caps” play a role, maybe the branchy trees and huge wooden houses on gloomy streets like St. are scary. Gagarin. A half-collapsed fence near the House of Culture, non-working fountains, sidewalks on the potholes of which children on roller skates stumble, empty streets - all this evokes sadness. At the same time, we are pleased with the working cinema, skating rink, decent, albeit few, cafes and bars. And also people. Friendly and leisurely.

“We live,” says Artem. — In winter there are slides and skating rinks, in summer there are cottages and barbecues in nature. The children have clubs and sections, I go to events at the House of Culture twice a year... Whoever wants to, lives.

"Guberniya Daily" thanks the residents of Segezha Artem, Dmitry and Alexey for the warm welcome and walk around the city. If you have something to add, clarify, or simply tell, write in the comments. And also, we will gladly accept the offer to become our guide: invite you to your city!

Story

Until the 12th-13th centuries, the main population of the area were the Sami. Later, Karelians and the first Russian settlers from the Novgorod lands appeared.

Russian empire

In 1694, fugitive peasants and participants in the Solovetsky Uprising founded the Vygoretsky Monastery - the “Vygoretsky Abode”. The monastery was located on the Verkhny Vyg River, but some of its monasteries were also located on the banks of the Vygozero.

From the beginning of the 1800s - the Vygozerskaya volost of the Povenets district of the Olonets province. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Vygozersky volost included three peasant societies - Maselga, Vygozersky and Koykinitsky.

S. N. Sokolov, who explored the Povenets district on behalf of the Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography in 1904, described Segezha this way: “This village, if you can call it that... consists of one house, the inhabitant of which is a Korel under the name of Judas, with family. Thanks to the advantageous location of his house on a large rafting river and thanks to the abundance of animals, birds and fish in the surrounding area, as well as water meadows, his family is always provided with everything necessary and does not suffer great need. The only inconvenience of this village is the almost complete absence of roads to it.”

In connection with the construction of the Murmansk railway, which began in 1914, a small station, Segezha, appeared in the Vygozersk volost, among others.