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Kargopol is a city and the place of work of Kargopolsky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on each sides of the Onega River, several miles north of Lake Lacha, within the southwestern nook of the oblast. It is not clean whilst Kargopol become based, but, when first chronicled in 1146, it become a exchange station of the Novgorod Republic and one of the maximum northerly everlasting Slavic settlements. Although documentation for its early history is scarce, it is believed that Kargopol became the maximum massive trade middle of Bjarmaland during the 13th and 14th centuries. You can come here and explore this place.

In 1447, it turned into the location where Dmitry Shemyaka found shelter from Vasily II's ire. Situated on the ancient route between Moscow and Arkhangelsk then the handiest Russian seaport, Kargopol became one of the most wealthy towns of Russia, particularly after the Muscovy Company started out to function in the mid-16th century. During the Time of Troubles it withstood a siege by means of Polish and Lithuanian brigands. Timber industry serves as the basis of the enterprise of Kargopolsky District. The linum manufacturing manufacturing unit, which used to exist in Kargopol until the 1970s, is defunct.

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