Pustoy Bereg
Other names: Vekhnavolok
First mentioned in 1563.
Number of farmsteads: 2 (1563), 11 (1678), 11 (1707), 9 (1911).
The village is mentioned in the earliest surviving documents as many villages of the Kizhi region. In the XIX century it counted nine houses, now there is just one of them left.
The history of the village is connected with the famous Kizhi rebellion. It was the largest uprising of bonded peasants in Karelia, 1769 – 1771, one of the forerunners of the peasant war led by E.Pugachev (1773 – 1775). The cause of the rebellion was the obligation of peasants to work at iron and copper melting plants, the result of which was the decay and destruction of peasant farms. The Kizhi Pogost was the center of the rebellion. Peasants were shot from canons at its walls. Among the participants of the rebellion, who were exiled to Siberia, only one came back to the native village. It was peasant Moses Chivorov. He soon became one of the most prosperous farmers in the Kizhi region. During the XIX c. the family of Chivorov repeatedly donated money, books, ornament, and icons to the Kizhi churches.