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 Kenozero shape is determined by the fact that Lake Kenozero is located in the rift of the earthcrust, in contrast to other lakes in Kenozersky National Park, all of them being of glacial origin. There are over 70 islands on Lake Kenozero. Until the 1990s, the lake served for timber rafting. The rafts were made in the course of the Undosha and the destination was the Onega. There are a dozen of villages at the lakeshore, the biggest of which are Vershinino and Pershlakhta. The road connects the northern shore (in particular, Ust-Pocha, Vershinino, and Pershlakhta) with "Onezhsky Trakt", the road