One of the most popular attractions of Lake Onega - Pegrema - the mysterious village of Karelia. It is located on the banks of Unitskoy lips Zaonega the west of the peninsula, on a fairly large distance from the shore of Lake Onega. It is a cultural and historical complex, it is not far from the village Pegrema, just a mile. It is surrounded by beautiful pine forests. Here special natural climatic and soil conditions, thanks to them the nature of this corner is preserved in its original diversity of both animal and plant life. Preserved traces of ancient culture and spiritual life of the population Zaonega edge. Therefore Pegram without exaggeration be called the pearl of Zaonezhye.

For the first time in the monuments Pegrema noticed archaeologist scientist Zhuravlev AP in 1985. Make this discovery helped a random event. Not far from the village Pegrema a result of a forest fire burned locally plot of undergrowth. Thanks to this, archeologists discovered an unusual sight: a small area has been a lot of stones, boulders, many of whom had zoomorphic form and traces of rough handling. On bare soil in some places it could see masonry, ocher and lots of sand.

In 1991-1994 it was held deeper study of this complex .  The total area of ​​20 thousand square .  m, it has been found in the hundreds of monuments of different ages .  One of the oldest - a unique religious monument 3-2 millennium BC .  Focusing on a small area of ​​stones, boulders, similar to the human figure, or figures of animals, he says that they are elements of religious rituals of ancient people .  These beliefs included the worship of the souls of the dead and stone idols .  Very interesting stone sculptures created by some of their vast parts .  They clearly discern the shape of the lower body of women, human skull .  Many discoveries were made on-site in the form of ancient tombs, the graves of both single and group .  Burial Upper Paleolithic people typically include ritual practices in the graves with the deceased found tools, stone knives, jewelry, ceramics, embers .  It is found that the burial then covered with red ocher .  Obviously, at this time, there are ideas about the afterlife .  It is likely that a target body color staining of blood was to give it a life force energy .

Monuments, megaliths in Pegrema diverse: there are made up of several parts, set on each other, there are separate vertically disposed, is simply folded in a heap. But there are more complex shapes. Unusual, for example, boulders arranged in a snail, they may have is a circle-wards. There is a complex figure of enormous frogs, whose worship in ancient times was connected with the cult of fertility. Discovered in Pegrema figure, called by archaeologists "tetёrka", its length is 1, 8 m, width 1, 05 m and a height of 0, 65 m. The ancient inhabitants Zaonezhye deified image of waterfowl, and it was central to their worldview. It is therefore not surprising that among the stone figures was discovered figure duck. It consists of two stones, consisting each other, clearly visible beak 12 cm long and 70 cm tail. This monument stands out significantly and is perfectly visible at a great distance.

Pegrema - a unique monument, it is only here, in contrast to other religious discoveries of Karelia, was discovered by archaeologists cultural layer, which is not preserved elsewhere. Cultural and historical center in Pegrema awakens interest in studying the traditions of ancient cultures, it contributes to the development of tourism in the region.