Kondostrov Island | place with historical importance, uninhabited island, GULAG

 island, place with historical importance, uninhabited island, GULAG

Island Kondostrov - granite wooded island, an area of 12.9 square meters. km with a highly indented coastline, located in the central part of the Onega Bay, 90 km from Solovki.

On the island are scattered boulder monuments, had a religious purpose and presumably attributable to the medieval Sami culture.
In 1894, Solovetsky monastery petitioned for the assignment to him Kondostrova, which was operated by the treasury, to cover the needs of the monastery in the marching forest. The request was granted in 1897, the Cabinet decision on this matter personally approved the Emperor Nicholas II.
Soon began developing the island and the establishment of a monastery on it in the name of St. Nicholas - patron saint of the reigning monarch. July 13, 1908 in the monastery was consecrated a wooden Nicholas Church for 500 worshipers, was built in Russian style and had the oak-carved iconostasis. Construction of the temple were built efforts brotherhood and staff members Solovetsky monastery and lasted 4 years, the greatest contribution of secular benefactors made the owner of a sawmill in the town of Kemi Guvelyaken. Skeet was primarily for household purposes, and had become a haven for the coast-dwellers, data entered in the bad weather to its shores. By the time of the consecration of a temple on the island have already been created good roads, several large buildings for staff members and monks, a sauna, a smithy, extraction of tar plant, cattle and horse yards, greenhouses, greenhouse, orchards, forest nurseries (for the cultivation of larch and other valuable varieties of conifers ), wells, cellars and other outbuildings and a stone jetty, capable of receiving small vessels and boats carrying people from standing in the roads steamers; planned establishment of the station for the breeding of wild animals. In addition, adjacent to the monastery area and adjacent to it on the island were built Pnevaty quarry, addressed their needs for the monastery and worked for export.

In the post-revolutionary period the monastery was closed. Since 1924, the islands have places of detention. In the years 1924-1931. He was assigned to the first part of the Solovki prison camp, in the years 1931-1938. - To Byelbaltlag, in 1938-1942 years. - To Soroklagu (as a free-kick offices).
In "The Solovetsky" period on the island contained up to several hundred prisoners. At the beginning of camp here and send the failed informants ("informers") in the second half of the 20's. Kondostrov became a place of exile for the disabled, the sick and the "goners" mortality which in some years was very high (because of the prisoners solovchane nicknamed the island "Mogilev province", ie death trap). In the camp at the time Kondostrove were logging and apparently continued to operate some of the more monastic production (for example, extraction of tar plant).
The island was built Kondostrov UZ in a quarry. Serviced by the Office Solovetsky camps later - GULZhDS (Head Office of the railway construction camps). From UZ nothing left but the remains of old quarries are preserved.
Currently, the island is uninhabited.
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