Kenozero National Park
Lakes, wooden churches and villages in Russia's Arkhangelsk Oblast, beside Karelia
Kenozero National Park is centred on Lake Kenozero, and its wooden churches with painted ceilings, or "heavens", are the landmarks of a cultural landscape that escaped Soviet industrialisation. It sits on the divide between the Atlantic and Arctic ocean basins.
Things to do
- On footWalk the pedestrian trail to the Porzhensky Pogost, with its St. George church and bell-tower
- HeritageDrive the road from the Onega highway to Pershlakhta and the villages around Lake Kenozero
- HeritageLook for the wooden churches with painted "heavens" in the villages around the lake
- Try thisExplore the string of lakes between Lyokshmozero and Kenozero, including Naglimozero and Vilno