ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

Sector «Russians of Pudozhye»

If you start walking along the road to the North from the village of Yamka, the village almost immediately disappears. After a number of fascinating landscapes the next turning reveals the northern end of the Island. Three giant wooden houses stiffened at the outset make up the “Pudozhsky” exposition sector of the Kizhi Museum. The buildings turned their pretty facades to the East. There, behind the sprinkle of neighboring islands and blue stripe of the open Onega Lake, in the fine weather you can see the shore from where their native Pudozhsky land begins.
The territory of the former Pudozhsky uyezd (district) of Oloneckaya province stretched between eastern shore of the Onega Lake and river Kena which was the natural western border with Kargopolye. Pudozhskij uyezd bordered with Povenecky uyezd and Arkhangelskaya province in the North, and in the south it sided with Vologodskaya province together with Vytjegorsky uyezd. Since then the administrative borders of Pudozhsky region has become somewhat narrower. However, they still separate the territory which is somehow similar to and at the same time quite different from other regions of Karelia.
Villages of Pudozhye were small and, as the rule, situated on the dry river banks and lake shores where people had lived earlier. The front facades of the houses were usually turned to the sun and water. Granaries were located across the houses, but threshing barns, smithies and water-mills were usually hidden behind the village. A small farmstead of this type was reconstructed in the exposition of our architectural and ethnographical museum.
There are three houses on a steep river bank along one side of the road. There are granaries on the other side of it, which is closer to the lake. The houses are perfect examples of different types of dwellings that were mostly common in Pudozhsky district.

List of monuments:

• Granary of peasant Belosheyev from the village of Pjalozero
• The granary of Grishin from the village of Kubovskaya
• The granary of Pakhomov from the village of Ostrov-Zarechye
• The bathhouse (near the Butin’s house)
• The house of Belyaev from the village of Kubovskaya
• The house of Butin from the village of Pyalozero
• The House of Potashov from the village of Pyalma