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2 unusual facts about Kargopolsky District


Kargopolsky District

The northeastern shore of Lake Vozhe, also in the basin of the Onega, belongs to Kargopolsky District, but the lake itself is in Vologda Oblast.

For instance, Ivan Bolotnikov, the leader of the peasant insurgence, was sent to Kargopol in 1607, where he was blinded and then drowned.



see also

Kargopolsky

Kargopolskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kargopol and the village of Zazhigino in Kargopolsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as