Pashozero

Pashozero stands by the lake from which the Pasha flows west toward the Svir. The church district at the lake is named in a 1583 survey as the St Nicholas pogost on the Pasha. Its inhabitants also appear in birch-bark letters sent from the Tikhvin country to Novgorod, evidence of older ties across the wooded region. Villages and their church centre stood among the lakes and rivers that feed the waters south of Lake Onega.