Pudozh is located in Pudozh Karelia. A small town far from transport
routes, located on the banks of the Vodla River, several tens of
kilometers east of its mouth at the confluence with Lake Onega.
Administrative center of the Pudozhsky district.
Base point for
visiting Vodlozersky National Park.
1 Church of Alexander Nevsky, Pionerskaya street, 38.
2 House of
merchant Bazegsky, Lenin street, 33.
3 Local History Museum named
after. A.F. Korableva , st. Karl Marx, 43. 9:00–17:15 except Mon and
Sat. Quite an interesting museum that gives an idea of how Pudozh
residents used to live.
By plane
There is an airfield in Pudozh capable of receiving
helicopters and AN-2 aircraft, but currently neither airplanes nor
helicopters fly there.
By train
The nearest railway station is
Medgora - in Medvezhyegorsk, more than 100 km from Pudozh.
By car
From St. Petersburg:
Option 1. Follow the P21 (E105) “Kola” highway
to Medvezhyegorsk, then turn onto the A119 “Vologda-Medvezhyegorsk”
highway.
Option 2. Along the P21 (E105) "Kola" highway to Lodeynoye
Pole, then turn onto the A215 "Lodeynoye
Pole-Vytegra-Prokshino-Plesetsk-Bryn-Navolok" highway to Vytegra, then
turn onto the A119 "Vologda-Medvezhyegorsk" highway. (Attention! The
section of the A215 highway from Oshta to Vytegra is in poor condition!)
From Moscow:
Along the M8 highway “Kholmogory” to Vologda, then
along the A119 highway “Vologda-Medvezhyegorsk”.
From the Arkhangelsk
region there is a regional road from Kargopol 11Р002/86К287, passing
through the Kenozersky National Park.
By bus
Flights operate
from the Petrozavodsk bus station:
No. 525
Petrozavodsk-Kondopoga-Medvezhyegorsk-Pudozh,
No. 525E
Petrozavodsk-Medvezhyegorsk-Pudozh,
No. 802
Petrozavodsk-Girvas-Medvezhyegorsk-Pudozh-Vytegra.
On the ship
There is no flight service.
1 Cafe “Idol”, st. Lenina, 70. 10:00–21:00. Dining room, good
reviews.
2 Cafe “Nostalgie” , st. Lenina, 90. Mon–Fri 10:00–24:00,
Sat–Sun 18:00–24:00.
3 Cafe “Uyut” , Komsomolskaya st. 65 (at the
motel). 7:00–24:00. A full-fledged cafe with a cozy interior, the best
place in the city.
1 Motel “Uyut”, Komsomolskaya str., 65. ☎ 5-22-78. An ordinary
hotel, like many in other regional centers of Karelia. Comfortable
rooms, its own cafe with good cuisine, there is even a sauna with a cold
pool.
2 Hotel “Karel-Onego”
The name of the city Pudoga, also known as Pudozh, presumably goes back to the Karelians. puvas “river branch, channel”.
The modern coat of arms of the city was approved in 2016 and is based on the historical coat of arms of the city of Pudozh from 1788. Description of the coat of arms: “In a green field there are three golden bunches of flax folded together and shown in the left band. The shield is topped with a municipal tower crown of the established pattern. The motto “Extraordinary Kindness” is inscribed in black letters on a silver ribbon.”
Location and terrain
The city is located on the right, elevated
bank of the Vodla River, approximately 25 km from its confluence with
Lake Onega.
The distance to the capital of the republic,
Petrozavodsk, is 352 km.
Climate
Average annual air
temperature - 2.9 °C
Relative air humidity - 79.2%
Average wind
speed - 1.9 m/s
It was first mentioned in written sources in 1382 as the village of
Pudoga. However, the name Pudog was encountered by scientists in birch
bark document No. 131, found in 1953 in Novgorod at the Nerevsky
excavation site in the layers of the 70s - early. 80s (preferably no
later than 70s) of the 14th century.
Since the 15th century, the
Nikolsky Pudozhsky churchyard has been part of the Zaonezhsky
churchyards of the Novgorod land. Since 1478, part of the Russian state.
On May 16, 1785, by decree of Catherine II, it became a district
town of the Olonets governorship. In the same year, Pudozh was visited
by the Olonets governor G.R. Derzhavin. In connection with the abolition
of the Olonets governorship, in 1796 it was transformed into a posad and
included in the Onega district of the Arkhangelsk province, but in 1799
it was restored to the status of a provincial town and included in the
Novgorod province. In 1801 it again became part of the restored Olonets
province. By decree of October 10 (22), 1802, the restoration of the
district status of the city was confirmed.
Since the end of the
18th century, several glass factories operated at the mouth of the Vodla
River, and sawmills since the end of the 19th century.
In 1882,
the St. Petersburg merchant D. N. Lebedev built a large sawmill at the
mouth of the Vodla, the products of which were supplied to St.
Petersburg and abroad. After the October Revolution, the plant was
nationalized. In 1924, the number of workers at the plant reached 400
people. In the 1970s, the plant was modernized, and the annual
production of lumber reached 125 thousand m³. In the 1990s, JSC Pudozh
Timber Mill was created on the basis of the enterprise.
The city
was a center for the cultivation, primary processing and trade of flax
and linen products. On the initiative of Governor Grigoriev G.G.,
regular steamship service with the city of Petrozavodsk was opened in
1873.
In July 1885, during a visit to Pudozh, Grand Duke Vladimir
Alexandrovich stayed in the house of merchant A.P. Bazegsky.
In
1902, the first telephone line appeared in Pudozh.
On January 25,
1905, the first political demonstration was organized in Pudozh. 9
political exiles with their wives took to the city streets. They put on
mourning bands, thereby expressing their protest against the events of
January 9, 1905 in St. Petersburg (“Bloody Sunday”).
In 1905, a
chapel was built in Pudozh in the name of the Holy Prophet Hosea in
memory of the miraculous deliverance from the death of the imperial
family during the crash of the imperial train.
Soviet power in the city was established in mid-to-late January 1918.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Bolsheviks made efforts to create
combat-ready units of the Red Army. In 1918, in Pudozh, members of the
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) N. G. Kudelin and F. M.
Perepelkin were involved in the formation of volunteer detachments of
the “Reds”. But the peasants did not want to serve in the Red Army. On
this basis, an uprising took place in Pudozh in January 1919 (following
the uprisings of December 1918 in other regions of Karelia). The rebels
were persuaded and sent to Petrozavodsk, where they were included in the
marching companies heading to the front.
In 1918, the Bolsheviks
launched a campaign to organize committees of poor people. In 1919,
White Guard troops attempted to break through to the city. Thanks to a
major peasant uprising, in the summer the territory of Zaonezhye was
captured, from which troops began to move south along the lake coast. It
was possible to stop the advance of the Whites towards Pudozh in the
fall of 1919 with the help of the 9th Infantry Regiment (commander I.D.
Spiridonov) of the 1st Infantry Division of the 6th Army of the Red Army
that arrived in time.
The situation in Pudozh during the NEP period (1926) is described in
the novel by E. S. Ryss “Six Hit the Road.”
In 1920, the
Vsevobuch sports festival took place in Pudozh - the first football and
basketball matches in the county, pentathlon and Sokol gymnastics
competitions were held.
In September 1922, after the abolition of
the Olonets province by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive
Committee of the RSFSR, the territory of the Pudozh district was
included in the Karelian Labor Commune. In 1923-1940. was part of the
Autonomous Karelian SSR (from 1936 - KASSR), until 1927 it was a
district center. In 1926-1943 it had the status of a village,
maintaining (since 1927) the status of a regional center.
On June
26, 1939, by resolution of the Karelian Central Executive Committee, the
stone church in Pudozh was closed and transferred to the House of
Defense.
In 1940 Pudozh was transferred to the Karelo-Finnish
SSR, and in 1956 it was returned to the Karelian Autonomous Soviet
Socialist Republic. On March 25, 1943, it again received city status.
In 1956, a new airport was built on the outskirts of Pudozh: an
asphalt runway, an air terminal, and office premises.
Since 1992
it has been part of the Republic of Karelia.
The authorities of the Pudozh urban district and Pudozh district are
located in Pudozh.
Local government
The local government body
of the Pudozh settlement consists of: the council of deputies, the head
of the settlement, who is part of the council of deputies and is its
chairman, and the control and accounting body. The Council consists of
15 deputies elected by the population in municipal elections in
single-member constituencies on the basis of universal, equal and direct
suffrage by secret ballot for a period of 5 years.
The local
administration of the Pudozh urban settlement is not formed; its powers
are exercised by the administration of the Pudozh district.
District
The Council of Deputies and the administration of the Pudozh
district are located in the same building on Lenin Street.
In 2014, Pudozh was included in the list of single-industry towns in
the Russian Federation with the most difficult socio-economic situation.
The city-forming enterprise is Pudozhlesprom LLC.
Logging and
transportation by road (timber rafting in the past) for the Kondopoga
and Segezha pulp and paper mills, as well as for export.
Production
of milk and dairy products.
Production of honey and honey products.
Sawmill production.
Bakery.
Extraction of gabbrodiabase (deep
black color).
Development of a deposit of titanium-magnesium ores
(project), granite (Kashina Gora, known since the 19th century - gray
and pinkish-gray granite was used for cladding buildings and embankments
in St. Petersburg and Moscow).
Extraction of gray granite and
production of crushed stone from it.
Fishing.
There are two secondary schools in the city: No. 2 and No. 3.
Secondary vocational education is provided by a branch of the Segezha
Northern College (until 2012, vocational school No. 22). It is possible
to master the professions of a cook, tractor driver, welder, carpenter,
or auto mechanic. In 2018, the Ministry of Education planned to close
the branch.
Additional education is provided by the School of
Arts (music department, art and graphic department) and the Children and
Youth Sports School (cross-country skiing, football, basketball, table
tennis and ice hockey groups).
The city has a local history museum named after. A. F. Korableva. The
museum was founded in 1970 and is located in the historical building of
the former zemstvo government.
regional cultural and leisure
center
central district library
the House for arts and crafts for
children
cinema "October". Opened in May 1953