Unezhma

Unezhma occupies a headland on the Onega coast of the White Sea, surrounded by low hills. Its Pomor inhabitants lived from the sea, fishing and hunting marine animals as well as boiling salt. The village was recorded in 1555 and belonged to the Solovetsky Monastery from 1591 until the secularization of its estates in 1764. The monastery maintained a church and salt works here; in 1826 a wooden church dedicated to St Nicholas, the sailors' patron, was built in the village.