Chakola

Chakola lies on the middle Pinega, a river flowing through the forests of the Russian North to the Northern Dvina. Its parish belonged to a chain of settlements along the river, including Verkola and Pirinem. A seventeenth-century account known as the Visions of Yevfimii of Chakola records a vision of Artemii of Verkola, a locally revered boy whose story became part of the religious literature of the Pinega region.