Vidana

The village is located on the banks of the Shuya River , near the 86K-10 Petrozavodsk-Suojärvi highway .

For the first time in official documents the village of Vidany is mentioned in 1563. Numerous references to the village of Vidana are found in the "Scribe Books of the Obonezh Five Fifths of 1496 and 1563." ^[2] :

“Der [eunya] on Videni in Nikolsky Pogost on Shuya”; “In the Nikolsky graveyard in Shuya, the volost of Lukinskaya Fedorov in Vyan”; “Der [eunya] on Videni: Alekseev Kuzemka, Vasilyev Luchka ...”; “Der. on Videniya Well: Timoshka Vasilyev, his brother Tereshka, Yashko Ondreyev ... sow in a field of rye with a box, hay mow 10 kop [ek] ”; "Poch [monk] on the can"; “In the Nikolsky graveyard on the Shuya river, the king of the Grand Duke Volost Mikitinskaya Gruzota on Vidan.”

In the late 1890s, 600 peasants lived in the village. There were 2 churches - in the name of St. Nicholas, built in 1894 by the merchant Sokolov and in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord ^[3] . On August 8, 1935, by a resolution of the Karelian CEC, churches were closed ^[4] .

In the 1930s - 1950s, Vidana was the center of the Vidan Village Council. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Upper Vidana, Antushevskaya and Kuzminskaya were merged into one Vidana settlement.

From January 12, 1961 to January 20, 1963, Vidana was the center of the Vilgovskiy village council, renamed Vilgovskiy ^[5] .

Traditionally, Vidans are inhabited by Karelian people - representatives of one of the three large sub-ethnic groups in the Karelian ethnic group.

According to the census conducted on the territory of the Autonomous Karelian SSR , the village Vidany included several settlements ^[6] :

Pogost - Karelian. Pogoste - borrowing from Russian, Antushevskaya - Karelian. Üliči literally translated “through something”, in this case “across the Shuya river”, that is, “a village located on the banks of the Shui river opposite from the churchyard”), Lower Vidan - Karelian. Alaižagd´ in the translation "lower end", Kuzminskaya or later Kuzminki (now Kuzminskaya street) - Karelian. Ülaižagd´ in translation - “upper end” and Vyachurg, Vyacherga - Karelian. Viäčurd´e - not entirely clear origin

As in previous times, the Vidana village is divided into 2 parts by the Shuya River : on the one hand there are grocery stores, there was a seven-year school, on the other side of the river, mostly summer cottage villages are being built.

• The grave of the chairman of the Vidan Village Council, Gurkin Stepan Yakovlevich, who was shot by the White Finns in August 1919 ^[9] .

• Scribe books of the Obonezh pyatins of 1496 and 1563 - L., 1930 S. 114-115. ISBN 5-86007-182-5

• All in all - for the holiday