Lake Konchozero

Konchozero, known in Karelian as Kendjärvi, lies among the lakes west of Onega. It receives water from neighbouring Pertozero through the Viksha. In 1706 Peter I ordered a copper-smelting works built at the rapids of that stream between the two lakes; the works later smelted iron as well. The lake and its surrounding forests thus lay close to one of the metalworking sites established in the Onega region during Russia's wars of the early eighteenth century.