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 Medvezhiegorsk for almost three years continued the fighting of Soviet and Finnish troops. And in 1984 in Medvezhyegorsk the shooting of Vladimir Menshov's film "Love and Doves" took place. Also, there were filmed "And the trees grow on the rocks," "Platinum 2" and "Piranha Hunting."
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How to get
From Petrozavodsk (150 km) you can get by bus, train or taxi "Express", which depart from the bus station Petrozavodsk (fare 100 RUR, on the way two ace, non-stop).
In addition, it is possible to reach and directly from Moscow or St. Petersburg, sitting on the train to Murmansk, and get off at Bear Mountain Station. On the way from Moscow 18, 5 hours, from St. Petersburg - 10, 5 hours.
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The climate of Medvezhyegorsk
Average February temperature -12 ° C, July +16 ° C, precipitation - 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" (a hotel for 16 persons, 4 VIP cottages with accommodation for up to 6 people each), address: 5 km from Medvezhiegorsk, 572 km of the Kola route, tel .: (81434) 514-86)
Entertainment, excursions and sights of Medvezhyegorsk
The most important landmark 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 protected I and photography are prohibited.).
In the city itself it is worth to inspect the railway station building (1916, the architect - Rufin M. Gabe), the building of the White Army Administration of the NKVD of the USSR (1934), the mass grave, a commemorative sign to the soldiers who died in To the Chechen Republic.
Museum of Local Lore in Medvezhiegorsk (address: 22, Dzerzhinsky St., tel .: (81434) 2-42-32) offers routes to places of ancient sites and petroglyphs, and also shows an interesting exposition devoted 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 Virma (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 15 km from Bear Mountain and 19 km from the village of Povenets . Here in the area of 10 hectares, in 1937-1938 more than 9,500 people of 58 nationalities were shot and buried . This is the largest burial place in the North-West of the victims of Stalin's 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. . Totally 236 firing pits were found in this territory . Shooting was carried out secretly, for the first time the burials of their victims were discovered in July 1997 .
Events
Annually in M a skiing holiday for the prize of the Olympic champion Feodor Terentyev is organized, traditional is the run 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 land of epics and storytellers and song festivals in Segozero. Photo of Medvezhiegorsk (5)