Megra

Megra stands on the river of the same name, which runs through the forests toward Lake Onega. The Megor pogost was one of the old church districts of the country east of the lake, neighbouring those of Vytegra and Andoma. Its villages lay along the Megra and its tributaries, amid a landscape whose place names preserve traces of Vepsian speech. The river gathered many smaller streams before reaching Onega, tying the scattered settlements of its valley to the lake shore.