Kem

Kem is a town and the regulatory focal point of Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on the shores of the White Sea where the Kem River enters it, on the railroad driving from Petrozavodsk to Murmansk. Kem was first made reference to as a demesne of the Novgorod posadnik Marfa Boretskaya in 1450, when she given it to the Solovetsky Monastery arranged in the White Sea a few kilometers off shore.

In 1657, a wooden fortress was raised there. Additionally wooden is the town's wonderful church, worked in 1711– 1717. It is a fine case of the risen rooftop development so well known in old Russian engineering. The house of God's iconostasis includes valuable 17^th century symbols from Novgorod. In 1926– 1939, Kem was utilized as flight put for vessels made a beeline for Solovetsky Islands conveying political detainees.

Amid the Cold War, the town was the site of the Poduzhemye air base, a key interceptor flying machine landing strip covering Karelia. Inside the system of authoritative divisions, Kem fills in as the regulatory focus of Kemsky District, to which it is specifically subordinated. As a civil division, the town of Kem, together with 3 country areas, is fused inside Kemsky Municipal District as Kemskoye Urban Settlement.