Verkhnie Mandrogi
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Verkhniye Mandrogi
Верхние Мандроги
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Verkhniye Mandrogi ( Russian Верхние Мандроги ) is a village in Leningrad Oblast ( Russia ) with 238 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is on the left bank of the river Swir , which connects Lake Onega with Lake Ladoga . It is located west of the city of Podporozhye, not far from the border with the Republic of Karelia . Administratively, it is part of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Waschiny of Rajons Podporozhye . The urban-type Vashiny settlement is located about 15 km northeast, the town of Podporozhje 20 km east of Verkhniye Mandrogi.
history
Mandrogi is a former fishing village that has developed continuously since the opening of the river connection to the Baltic Sea, especially under Tsar Peter the Great . Up until the outbreak of the Second World War , there were 29 farms on the island with more than 100 inhabitants belonging to the Wepsen people . At the end of the war, the place was completely destroyed by fire and people moved away. The remaining stone foundations of the buildings were gradually reclaimed by nature.
In the early 1990s, a rich Russian bought the area and the remains of the former village. He invited the best timber construction artists in Russia to demonstrate their old Russian architecture here. By 1996, the former fishing village was completely rebuilt as a museum village , and in 1999 it was once again given the official status of a village as the Verkhnyye Mandrogi (Russian / Wepsis for "Upper Current Threshold").
In addition to the permanent residents, another 200 people come to work in the village every day. There is a kindergarten and a school.
Some houses in Mandrogi
manor
Vodka Museum
Worth seeing
Colorful wooden castles in the old Russian style of boyar houses determine the entire village ensemble, which is embedded in a large, extensive recreation and nature park. The buildings serve as farmhouses on the one hand and are also used by private individuals as summer homes on the other. They also house a post office, two hotels, shops and handicraft boutiques. The main visitors to the museum village are the numerous tourists on the cruise ships that sail between Moscow and Petersburg during the summer months and dock here.
In Mandrogi, four old handicraft workshops have been rebuilt, which are actively operated and can be visited by tourists. The visitors can also make pottery, carve, weave, embroider or paint matryoshkas themselves under professional guidance . The vodka museum has developed as a point of attraction , in which over 2,800 types of vodka are collected, and you can also try them.
A summer house in the style of a manor house with its own boat dock is located in the very east of the island. Russian President Vladimir Putin spent his summer months here between 2001 and 2003.
A mini zoo has also been created on the Mandrogi site, where you can see typical animals that used to be kept in Russian villages, such as horses, rabbits and quails. A nostalgic small ferry connects the island with a fairy tale forest, in which nine scenes from Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila (based on Pushkin ) are depicted in larger-than-life figures.
source
- Visitor leaflet Russia. Leningrad region. The village of Verkhnie Mandrogi. 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
Web links
- Verkhniye Mandrogi website (Russian)