Priluky

Priluky stands on the left bank of the Onega at the mouth of the Shomoksha. A 1556 survey records the district around the Church of the Intercession at Priluki and lists eight villages belonging to it. The river joined these settlements to Kargopol upstream and the White Sea downstream. When the Kozhozero monastery was closed in 1764, the parish priest brought old icons from the monastery to the local church along the winter road, preserving a link between the river parish and the forest monastery.