The city is located on the shores of the White Sea, at the mouth of the Vyg River, 376 km from Petrozavodsk, near the Solovetsky Islands. From 1941 to 1945, Belomorsk was the temporary capital of the Karelo-Finnish SSR. Railway junction, seaport, White Sea-Baltic Canal. Near the city, at the Shoyruksha waterfall, in the lower reaches of the Vyg River, petroglyphs have been preserved - rock paintings of people and animals, hunting scenes, etc. (about 2000 images in total), relating to the 6-5th millennium BC.
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