Location: Kizhi Island
Other names: Udoev navolok
First mentioned in 1563.
Number of farmsteads: 2 (1563), 3 (1876), 2 (1905).
The village of Kyazhevo has been located on the northernmost tip of Kizhi Island till the middle of the XX century. In the last years of its existence it was a one-house settlement. The foreland where it was located was called Udoev navolok. This peculiarity of geographical position determined the first name of the village recorded in the cadastres of 1563. At the time of Novgorod the settlement was part of the land possessions of Vasiuk Shaleleev and consisted of two farmsteads. The village was called Udoev navolok until the middle of the XIX c. It is recorded as Kyazhevo in the documents of 1877. This name came from the name of the village residents. According to the data of 1876 there were three houses in the village. The first two houses were small (without a household part) and the third one had all the usual household premises i.e. a cattle yard and a shed. There was a granary near one of the houses. In 1905 there were only two farmsteads in the village where 13 people lived. They kept 2 horses and 3 cows. In the first half of the XX century there were 3 houses in the village where 13 (and later 7 people) lived. The village ceased to exist after the Second World War. The architectural and ethnographic sector “Northern Karelians” is being formed on the site of Kyazhevo village in the Kizhi Museum. The sector represents the culture of one of the ethnic groups of Karelians living in contemporary Karelia. Currently, there are two structures brought from the village of Gafostrov there. They are a threshing barn and a windmill.