Medvezhyegorsk is a pretty town located on the shore of Onega Lake. Until 1938, this place was called Bear Mountain, and the railway station where trains from Moscow, Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg stop is still called so. Medvezhyegorsk, one of the industrial centers of Karelia, is located on the northwestern tip of the Great Bay of Povenets Bay, at the mouths of the Kumsa and Vichki Rivers, and is surrounded by picturesque cliffs and sandy-gravel hills covered with coniferous forests.
During the Great Patriotic War in the region of Medvezhiegorsk, the fighting of Soviet and Finnish troops continued for almost three years. And in 1984 in Medvezhyegorsk the shooting of Vladimir Menshov's film "Love and Doves" took place. Also here were filmed "And on the rocks grow trees", "Platinum 2" and "Hunting for piranhas."
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How to get here
From Petrozavodsk (150 km) can be reached by bus, train or express bus "Express", which depart from Petrozavodsk bus station (the fare is 100 RUR, on the way two hours, without stopping).
In addition, you can get directly from Moscow or St. Petersburg by taking a train to Murmansk, and get off at Bear's Gora station. On the way from Moscow 18, 5 hours, from St. Petersburg - 10, 5 hours.
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The climate of Medvezhyegorsk
The average February temperature is -12 ° C, July is + 16 ° C, precipitation is 600 mm per year.
On the outskirts of Medvezhyegorsk there is the same climatic spa resort with mineral springs "Tsaritsyn Klyuch" and "Three Ivans."
Hotels
In the center of the city there is a hotel "Onega" (address: Dzerzhinsky Str., 2, tel .: (81434) 232-82). In addition, you can stop directly on the lake shore in the guest house "White Nights" (Lenin street, 10, tel .: (81434) 580-88, 8-911 401-49-28) or in the country club "Malaya Medvezhka" (hotel for 16 persons, 4 VIP cottages with accommodation for up to 6 people each), address: 5 km from Medvezhyegorsk, 572 km of the Kola route, tel .: (81434) 514-86).
Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Medvezhyegorsk
The most important sight of Medvezhyegorsk is the White Sea-Baltic Canal (BBK), which begins in the village of Povenets, located 24 km from the city (the facility is protected and photography is prohibited.)
In the city itself it is worth to inspect the building of the railway station (1916, the architect - Rufin M. Gabe), the building of the White Sea Canal Administration of the USSR NKVD (1934), the mass grave, a commemorative sign to the soldiers who died in the Chechen Republic.
The Museum of Local History of Medvezhyegorsk (address: 22 Dzerzhinsky St., tel .: (81434) 2-42-32) offers routes to places of ancient sites and petroglyphs, and also shows an interesting exposition dedicated to the construction of the Belomor Canal.
In addition, monuments of wooden architecture are interesting in the vicinity of the city: the Peter and Paul Church in the village of Wirma (17-18 centuries) and the St. Nicholas Church (17-18 centuries) in Muoser, as well as the waterfall on the Vichka River and the tragic Sandmokh.
Sandormoh is a forest tract, the place of mass executions of the NKVD is 15 km from Bear Mountain and 19 km from Povenets village .Here, on an area of 10 hectares, in 1937-1938 more than 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, they were special settlers and prisoners from the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Solovki camps, as well as residents of the surrounding villages .A total of 236 firing holes were found in this territory .The shootings were conducted secretly, for the first time the burial of their victims were discovered in July 1997 .
Developments
Annually in Medvezhyegorsk a skiing holiday is organized for the prize of the Olympic champion Fedor Terentyev, the traditional route is in September along the Pindushi-Medvezhyegorsk (length 7, 5 km), through Medvezhyegorsk passes the Karelian Ring run. Folklore festivals are held on the Zaonezhsky peninsula in the edge of epics and storytellers and song festivals in Segozero. Photo of Medvezhyegorsk (5)