Pegrema

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Pegrema is an abandoned village in Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on a bank of the Onego Lake, about 10 km from Unitsa in the Unitsa Gulf.

Pegrema is a beautiful example of the wooden architecture of Zaonezhye. It consists of several large peasant houses, the fronts of which are faced to the lake.

In the 1770s, the Varlaam Khutynsky chapel was built on a little cape in front of the houses. Now the chapel is almost completely safe, although all icons were removed from it after the Russian Revolution.