Navolok
Location: Kizhi Island
Other names: Okulovskaya (1563), Dudkin navolok (1851), Navolok (1901)
First mentioned in 1563.
Number of farmsteads: 4 (1563), 7 (1696), 4 (1748), 7 (1850).
Initially the village was part of the possessions of Novgorodian boyar Fedor Glukhov. In 2001-2002 K. Herman, I. Melnikov, and A. Spiridonov conducted excavations of a medieval settlement on the territory of the village. In 1563 there were four farmsteads in the village. It was the largest settlement of Kizhi Island. In 1696 there were 7 farmsteads and 4 farmsteads in 1748. By 1850 there have been seven families living in the village. Kornyl Krugov, one of the village residents, was registered in the citizenship of Saint Petersburg in 1818. This farmer donated a large silver-plated copper candlestick to the Church of the Transfiguration.
The village of Navolok (Okulovskaya) was one of the richest villages of the region. In 1824 there were 9 horses, 17 cows, and 12 sheep for 44 people living in 6 farmsteads. At the beginning of the XX century there were 4 horses, 7 cows, and 1 sheep for 34 people living in 4 farmsteads. In 1876 a granary owned by Basil Krugov was one of household structures in the village. He also owned a fishing boat “for transportation of various goods”.
In 1871 A. Guilferding, Professor of Slavic Studies of Saint Petersburg University, stayed in the village of Navolok to record epic tales from the narrators of Kizhi volost (T. Ryabinin, V. Shchegolenok, S. Kornilov and others).
Peasants of the village of Navolok (Okulovskaya) were not only farmers but also skilled craftsmen. In 1905 one joiner worked in the village and there were two shoemakers working in Saint Petersburg. At present the territory of Navolok village is used by the Kizhi Open Air Museum for the exhibition devoted to cultural traditions of Pryazha Karelians.