Pryazha

Pryazha lies by a lake of the same name in the forests west of Onega. A cadastral book of 1582–1583 records a village on Lake Pryazha and notes that its households had been burned and peasants killed by foreign troops. By the mid-1640s the scribes found three villages on the lake, named Pryazha, Pavlovo and Pakhomovo. Together they formed the older settlement from which the later locality developed, amid the lakes and woods of southern Karelia.