Kizhi Island

Kizhi is an island near the geometrical middle of the Lake Onega within the Republic of Karelia Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia. It is elongated from north to south and is about 6 km long, 1 km huge and is set 68 km far from the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk. Settlements and churches on the island were recognised from at least the 15th century. The populace become rural, but become pressured by the government to help improvement of the ore mining and iron plant life inside the vicinity that led to a primary Kizhi Uprising in 1769–1771. Most villages had disappeared from the island by the 1950s and now only a small rural agreement stays. In the 18th century, foremost churches and a bell tower have been constructed at the island, which might be now called Kizhi Pogost.

In the 1950s, dozens of historic wood buildings were moved to the island from diverse parts of Karelia for renovation functions. Nowadays, the complete island and the nearby area shape a countrywide open-air museum with more than 80 historical timber structures. The maximum famous is the Kizhi Pogost, that is a UNESCO World Heritage website online. Those flora required difficult bodily hard work which includes cutting forests for timber, coal burning, ground works, and so forth, which became more often than not provided by means of the neighborhood peasants. The hard work was pressured; the disobeyed have been punished by public beating and fines that sparked nearby riots.