Yushkozero
Yushkozero is the Venice of Viena Karelia. It spreads across three islands and onto the mainland in the delta of the river Kem. Suspension bridges, leading from one island to another are characteristic of the village scenery.
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The village festival of Yushkozero is traditionally held on 28th of August or the nearest weekend to that date.
Yushkozero has been the biggest village of the eastern runo-song area. Over the past one hundred years, its population has been greater than that of Voknavolok.
Lönnrot was the first poetry collector to come to Yushkozero, visiting the village in 1835 on his sixth field trip. He recorded eight poems there and observed that it was one of the easternmost locations where one could still find epic poetry.
Yushkozero stands out among other villages in Viena not only for its riverside landscape but also for the numerous decorative trees and well-tended gardens in the yards of its houses. As a rule, Karelian villages had no trees, with the exception of those growing in the graveyard. Only when houses were somewhat detached from the village proper did people plant spruce or mountain ash in the yard.