Shuya

Shuya lies near the lower course of the river of the same name, west of Lake Onega. It was the centre of the Nikolsky Shuya pogost, recorded in the cadastral books of the Onega region in 1496 and 1563. The latter lists two churches: one dedicated to St Nicholas, with a chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin, and a heated church of the Nativity of John the Baptist. The settlement grew from a cluster of villages around this old parish centre.