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15 unusual facts about Lake Onega


Battle of Nietjärvi

The frontline - up till July 1944 - had been following closely the banks of the River Svir, which flows from Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga.

Bylina

A storm stranded Rybnikov on an island in Lake Onega where he heard the sound of a bylina being sung; he persuaded the singer to repeat the song and wrote down his words.

East Karelian concentration camps

About 30 percent (24,000) of the remaining Russian population were confined in camps; six-thousand of them were Soviet refugees captured while they awaited transportation over Lake Onega, and 3,000 were from the southern side of the River Svir.

Eduard Pantserzhanskiy

During the Civil war he fought on riverine flotillas on Lake Onega and the Volga - Caspian front.

Finnlands Lebensraum

The new eastern border of Finland was defined to begin from the Gulf of Finland and run via lakes Ladoga and Onega to Onega Bay in the White Sea.

Julius Margolin

Together with numerous other "socially-dangerous elements", he was rounded up by the NKVD and sent to a labor camp on the northern bank of the Lake Onega.

Karelian Front

The front between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega was split of to the independent 7th Army during the static phase of the war.

Karl Lennart Oesch

Oesch was given command of Olonets Group in the Olonets Isthmus between Lakes Onega and Ladoga.

Kizhi Pogost

The pogost was built on the southern part of Kizhi island, on a hill 4 meters above the Lake Onega level.

Lipin Bor

Lake Beloye is a part of the Volga–Baltic Waterway (formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System), connecting the Rybinsk Reservoir in the river basin of the Volga and Lake Onega in the river basin of the Neva.

Military history of Finland during World War II

The Finnish army also advanced further, especially in the direction of Lake Onega, (east from Lake Ladoga), closing the blockade of the city of Leningrad from the north, and occupying Eastern Karelia, which had never been a part of Finland before.

Soviet Naval Aviation

They participated in the Russian Civil War, cooperating with the ships and the army during the combats at Petrograd, on the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Volga, the Kama River, Northern Dvina and on the Lake Onega.

Tim Cope

Tim and Chris set off from Petrozavodsk on the shore of Lake Onega in October 1999.

Vodohod

After merging with Volga Flot Tour company operates more than 50 passenger ships along rivers of Volga, Don, Kama, the Moscow and Volga-Don canals, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, Northern-Western rivers, lakes Ladoga and Onega.

Zincochromite

It was first described in 1987 as an occurrence in a uranium deposit near Lake Onega, Russia.