Everything about Onega Arkhangelsk Oblast totally explained
Onega is a
town in
Arkhangelsk Oblast,
Russia. It is situated at the
mouth of the
Onega River (at the right bank of the river, with suburbs on the left bank), just a few kilometers from the
Onega Bay of the
White Sea. Population: 23,430 (
2002 Census); 26,070 (
1989 Census).
Nowadays, Onega is a minor port on a bay on the
White Sea, which routinely freezes in winter. The town is also served by the
Arkhangelsk–
Murmansk rail line.
Onega is the administrative center of
Onezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast.
History
The
Pomor village of
Ust-Onega was first mentioned in
Novgorod documents in 1137. It also appears on a 13th-century map of Novgorod lands. The settlement was chartered on
August 19,
1780, after
Pyotr Shuvalov had sold his rights to fell timber to English industrialists who built several sawmills there.
Ill-fated young captain, oceanographer and linguist
Alexander Kuchin (1888-1913?), was born in Onega.
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,
Holy Cross Monastery, which was closed during the era of
religious persecution by the
Soviets.
Economy
In 2003, the Russian inland oil shipping company
Volgotanker started using the
White Sea-Baltic Canal for exporting
fuel oil. The scheme involved delivering oil by river tanker, over the canal and into a floating transfer terminal
near the
Osinki Island in the
Onega Bay, 36 km north-east of the port of Onega, for transfer to
Latvian seagoing tankers.
Unfortunately, on September 1, 2003 a collision between Volgotanker's
Nefterudovoz-57M and Latvian
Zoja-I during such a transfer caused an
oil spill. As a result, fines were paid, and the company didn't get a permit for similar operations in the following year.
As of 2005, plans were in the works, by a different operator (ARM-Nefteservis), to set up oil transfer operations at a floating terminal off Osinki Island again. This time, oil would be delivered by the railway to the
Shendunets station nearby, and pumped to the floating terminal by an underwater pipeline.
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