Vazhiny

Vazhiny stands where the Vazhinka meets the Svir, the river linking Onega and Ladoga. Vazhinsky Pogost is recorded in the sixteenth century as a Novgorodian settlement. A cadastral book of 1583 says that foreign troops had burned its churches and that the Church of the Resurrection was rebuilt after the war. In 1630 the parishioners gathered the resources to construct a new wooden Resurrection Church, a landmark of the old parish beside the river.