Lake Sredneye Kuyto

Middle Kuyto is the central lake of the Kuyto chain in White Karelia, within the basin of the Kem. It receives the waters of Upper Kuyto and leads eastward through the connected lakes toward the White Sea. The settlement of Uhtua, later called Kalevala, stands on its shore. Karelian villages around these lakes belonged to a country of oral poetry, waterways and forest routes linking the interior with the coast.