Lake Seletsy

Lake Seletsy gave its name to the Spassky Seletsky pogost, a district in the forested interior of Karelia. Its centre stood by the lake, on a route linking the Ladoga country with the White Sea. The district belonged to the group known as the Lopsky pogosts under Novgorod, and its territory included the upper Suna and Porosozero.

Late sixteenth-century descriptions divided the Seletsky district into smaller units known as perevary. The lake thus stood within an inhabited administrative landscape of villages, waterways and outlying districts. Its connections ran across the watershed between the Baltic and White Sea worlds, making the lakeshore a local centre within a much wider Karelian interior.