Village of Velika Guba
The Velika Guba is one of the northwestern bays of Onega Lake, which is cut into the Zaonezhsky Peninsula. The length is about 40 km. The width is from 3 to 15 km. The shallowest of the bays of Onega Lake. In Velikaya Luba, to the northwest of the vast Klimetsky Island, there are five islands. The largest of them is Kizhi. On the north-eastern shore of the bay - the lips of Onega Lake in Zaonezhie is located the ancient village of Velikaya Guba, first mentioned in historical chronicles in 1583, the largest settlement in the south of the Zaonezhsky peninsula. Velikaya Guba (about 80 km to the north-east from Petrozavodsk) is the largest settlement in the south of the Zaonezhsky peninsula. The village of Velikaya Guba is a traditional settlement for Zaonezhye, consisting of a group of villages: Verkhovye, Repny Posad, Pogost, Mogletsy, Tarasy. All these villages are mentioned in one of the scribe books of 1563, the earliest surviving document of this territory. Thanks to the descriptions of the Moscow scribes, today we know how many villages there were, who lived there, what he did. By the XIX century, the village of Velikaya Guba - a rich settlement, in the center of which are majestic two-storeyed rich peasant houses and houses of local merchants. At the moment, the traditional building has remained fragmented, so in the village of Verkhovye there is an architectural monument of local significance - the house of Kostin. But there are no wooden churches here, the inhabitants of such a large village could afford to put in the nineteenth century instead of old wooden, more expensive and reliable stone. In 1647-1654 the church of the Prophet Elijah was erected here, replaced in the XIX century by the church of St. Alexis, the man of God. This stone church was built on the means of a senior priest and the donations of parishioners in the 1860s and was consecrated in January 1867. There is a temple on the territory of the former village of Pogost on the eastern shore of one of the peninsulas of the shores of the Great Lip of Lake Onega. The temple building was made in the provincial version of the "Russian style" of 1860-1870. Zaonezhie is one of the most beautiful corners of the Russian North, which attracts tourists with the harmony of architectural monuments. This land holds a lot of amazing treasures, often hidden from the sight of an ordinary traveler. |
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