Shyoltozero

Shyoltozero, called Šoutjärv’ in Veps, lies near the southwestern shore of Lake Onega in a district inhabited by Veps people. The archbishop of Novgorod first mentioned it in 1453. Its original site was beside a lake some six kilometres southwest of the later settlement; after the inhabitants moved, that lake became known in Veps as Kodijär’v, or home lake. Shyoltozero and neighbouring villages formed a pogost, a parish and administrative district of the Onega country.