Pegrema

Pegrema (Russian: Пе́грема) is an abandoned village in Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on a bank of Lake Ääninen, about 10 km from Unitsa.^{[citation needed]}

Pegrema is a beautiful example of the region's wooden architecture. It consists of several large peasant houses, the fronts of which are faced to the lake.^{[citation needed]}

Karelian language, people and traditions belong to the Finnic culture that flourished around the Finnish gulf. Unfortunately large areas of Karelia and Veps ended up on the wrong side of the Swedish-Novgorod (Russia) border in the peace treaty of Pähkinäsaari (Nut Island) in 1323.

In the 1770s, the Varlaam Khutynsky chapel was built on a little cape in front of the houses. The chapel remains almost completely intact, although all icons were removed from it after the Russian Revolution.^{[citation needed]}