Onega, Russia museum in the town is the Onega Historical Museum. Kiy Island, offshore from Onega, and the surrounding ice fields were used as the location for filming "A Captive in the Land" in the winter of 1989–1990. The island is the site of a monastery, the Holy Cross Monastery, which was closed during the era of religious persecution by the Soviets. Ill-fated young captain, oceanographer and linguist Alexander Kuchin (1888-1913?), was born in Onega. Bolshevik writer Nikolai Bukharin was exiled to Onega in 1911 and left for Germany in 1912. Onega, Russia Onega () is a town in the northwest of
Lake Vozhe the fourth lake (also behind the Rybinsk Reservoir). Historically, Lake Vozhe was on the trading route connecting the basings of the Volga and the Onega via the Sheksna River. There is one big island on the lake, Spassky Island. On the island, ruins of the former monastery are located. The only inhabited locality on the lakeshore is the village of Charonda which is a former trading settlement founded in the 13th century, currently having the population under ten and almost deserted. Charonda does not have all-seasonal land connections. Formerly, the village of Vasilyevskaya was located on the northern lakeshore. It