Bolshaya Selga (Medvezhyegorsk district)

Located on the southern shore of Lake Semchozero , on the highway west of Medvezhyegorsk . Northwest of the village rises the largest island of Semchosera - Bolshoi Island, in the village itself is a pier on the lake. On the eastern outskirts of Bolshaya Selga is the mouth of the Mill Channel connecting Semchozero with Orekhozero located to the south. Southwest of the settlement between these two lakes stretches the Mankizinsuo swamp. To the east, beyond the river, also by the road, on a small hill, is the uninhabited village of Mänduselga . Behind it, on a narrow isthmus between Semchozoer and Karzikozero , connected by a rapids, is the sparsely populated village Karzikozero , which is, however, the only inhabited place in the immediate vicinity of Bolshaya Selga. Around Big Selga there are many forests, spruce and pine grow ^{[2] [3]} .

The name "Selga", according to some sources, means "a stone ridge, a hill." Bolshaya Selga is already present, at least on the Map of European Russia and the Caucasus Region in 1862, where it is ranked among the smallest settlements ("villages, outskirts, colonies, dungeons, hamlets and kishlos (corrals)") ^[4] .

On the Special Map of European Russia by I. A. Strelbitsky , drawn up in 1865-1871 (sheet 39, edition of 1874), Bolshaya Selga - a settlement ranging in size from 3-5 to 10 yards ^[5] .

As of 1905, Bolshaya Selga was part of the Pokrovsky society of the Mänduselg parish of the Povenets district of the Olonets province ^[6] .

As of 1989, about 10 people lived in the village ^[2] . According to the 2002 census , there was no population in the village of Bolshaya Selga ^[8] .