Vashkinsky District

In modern borders the area exists since 1927. It occupies a considerable part of the White lake coast, which is rich in wood, fish, wild fowl. The area of the White lake has been connected to an ethnic history and culture of Finno-Ugric peoples since the most ancient times. Slavic tribes started colonization of this territory in the middle of the first millennium A.D. The environment determined the economic complex, a leading role in which belonged to hunting and fishing, while agriculture and cattle breeding were subsidiary. Probable prospects of economic development of the district are connected to the growing popularity of tourism in non-polluted territories. New opportunities are to be found due to the construction of highway Vologda - Medvezhyegorsk which will connect Vologda, Arkhangelsk, Leningrad, Murmansk Oblasts and Republic Karelia.

The center of the district is village Vashki. In the territory of the Vashkinsky district the greatest density of archeological monuments is fixed in the middle and down-stream the Kema: the settlements can be seen on both banks starting in the mouth of the river and up to village Novoselovo. The further colonization of the territory began in the XIV-XV centuries. The population was attracted here due to the richest fishing grounds. It is known, that in the XVI-XVII centuries here there were protected sites, where fishing was prohibited and it was allowed to fish only for the imperial court yard.

The name of the district is in a literal sense connected to water and fish in which this territory is rich. There are different versions explaining the origin of the name of village Vashki. One explanation is connected to the names of Lake Vashkozero or the river Vashki. Another one is connected to the word which means "perch".

On the White lake coast, in the village Lipin Bor, there is a Kemskoye hunting farming. Here it is possible to hunt a wild boar and a bear, a blackcock and wood-grouse, and also woodcock and water fowl.