The Iono-Yashezero Monastery—or rather, what has survived of it, above all the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour. This is a forest monastery, still relatively hard to reach even now. It is difficult to imagine what kind of wilderness lay there in the second half of the 16th century, when it was founded—or, more precisely, when its founder simply settled in those dense, remote woods.
Between Lake Yashezero and Lake Sennoe, a couple of dozen kilometres from the old northern Veps village of Shoksha, the Veps monk Iona of Yashezero is said to have established his hermitage on the site of an old pagan sanctuary. He was also buried here, in a small cave—now lost.
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