Luda

Luda stands at the mouth of its namesake river on Una Bay, an inlet of the White Sea. Fishing and the boiling of salt from local brine sustained the Pomor settlements on these shores; mills were recorded at Luda in the sixteenth century. In 1553 Richard Chancellor’s English ship Edward Bonaventure reached the bay during the voyage that opened direct relations between England and Muscovy. The coast joined a local world of fisheries and saltworks to a new sea route from western Europe.