Monastic navolok (Kandalaksha)

 headland (geography), invisible

This place was Kandalaksha monastery.

Kandalaksha Monastery, nestyazhatelnogo type, "bezvotchinny" (one of the few in the Russian North bezvotchinnyh mansions, where the brothers lived only their own work.), Was founded by Reverend Theodoret Kola in 1548 - 1550 GG
The monastery was located at the mouth of the River Niva, on the left bank (in our time - st. Zarechnaya). Even today this place - small, jutting out into the sea in Cape Verde, called "Monastic tongue." From all the buildings of the monastery to the present time, only the foundation of the monastery church of the Nativity of the Virgin.

This place is one of the most dramatic events in the medieval history of the Kola region: in 1589 the "irreconcilable" Pekka Vesaynen of Oulu and burned the village and monastery, carved into one day, 450 monks and laymen. In memory of this event is set worship the cross.
Double monastery revived - after this terrible raid and domestic fire in 1693. "Rise from the ashes and burnt by the British in the Crimean War in 1855 the former monastery, was already a parish, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. It was restored at public expense in 1866 and closed during the Soviet era in 1940.

In 1654 the link in the Kandalaksha monastery was one of the leaders of division and associate of rebel archpriest Habakkuk - Ivan Nero (in the film "split" this character is also available). Nero escaped from the Kandalaksha links, but his aides in 1679 found themselves in shackles and subsequently starve themselves.

The monastery is an old pillow case Pomerania cemetery and a monument to victims of the occupation edge Entente troops in 1918-1919.