The Vyg (; ) is a river in the

Republic of Karelia The Republic of Karelia, or simply Karelia or Karjala (; ) is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia situated in the Northwest Russia, northwest of the country. The republic is a part of the Northwestern Federal District, and covers an area of ...

, Russia. It consists of the Upper Vyg which is long and discharges into

Lake Vygozero Lake Vygozero (; ) is a large freshwater lake in the Republic of Karelia, in the northwestern part of Russia. It has an area of , and is part of the Vyg drainage in the White Sea basin. From 1933 it has been a part of the White Sea–Baltic C ...

, and the Lower Vyg, which is long and flows from Vygozero and discharges into

Onega Bay The Onega Bay () is located in the Republic of Karelia and Arkhangelsk Oblast in Northwestern Russia, west of the city of Arkhangelsk. It is the southernmost of four large bays and gulfs of the White Sea, the others being the Dvina Bay, the Mez ...

of the

White Sea The White Sea (; Karelian language, Karelian and ; ) is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola Peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the nort ...

near

Belomorsk Belomorsk (; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea. Population: History In the beginning it was a small village named ...

. The Upper Vyg flows through several small lakes in a swampy land. The Lower Vyg is a part of the

White Sea–Baltic Canal The White Sea–Baltic Canal (), often abbreviated to White Sea Canal (), is a man-made ship canal in Russia opened on 2 August 1933. It connects the White Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, with Lake Onega, which is further connected to the Baltic Sea. U ...

and is controlled by several dams. Belomorsk petroglyphs00

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

on islands of Vyg near its mouth. There were famous ''

raskolnik The Schism of the Russian Church, also known as (, , meaning 'split' or 'schism'), was the splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement in the 1600s. It was triggered by the reforms of Patr ...

'' monasteries along Vyg and its tributary , notably the (also Vygoretskaya Hermitage)

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