SHOYNA LIGHTHOUSE

(autotranslated, could have mistakes)

The lighthouse is named after a river flowing from east to west and flowing into the White Sea 55 miles south of Cape Kanin Nos.

In the “White Sea Route”, published in 1915, we read: “The Shoina River originates among the internal mountains, 40 versts from the mouth and flows along a winding clay-sandy channel of variable width: sometimes narrowing to 25 fathoms, sometimes widening to a mile, and eight versts from its mouth it expands by six versts, forming as there would be a wide reach, into which many rivers and streams with clayey, viscous banks flow from all sides... 12 versts from the mouth, on the left bank of the river, there is a fishing (temporary) winter camp, consisting of 15 huts and 1 chapel, where industrialists go on shallow-draft steamers and, standing at anchor, in a hole opposite the huts, have shelter there from the end of September to January (the period fishing), fishing for navaga. On the same left bank, on sandy hillocks, there is another temporary summer camp, consisting of 7 huts and 1 chapel, where industrialists spend the summer (June and July) fishing for flounder.”

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Shoina Lighthouse

Entry to the river mouth was very difficult and was only possible at high tide and only for ships with a draft of no more than 3 m. On the entrance fairway

A strong side current made it difficult to keep the ship on course. To facilitate entry, three pairs of daytime direction signs were installed on the river bank in 1914.

In 1931, to approach the fishermen’s village that had grown by this time, hydrographs of the North installed a small lighthouse light on the shore in the form of an acetylene lantern on a wooden truncated pyramid with a rectangular, planked superstructure in the form of three shields, painted red with white vertical stripes. The entire structure had a height of 15.5 m, and the height of the fire from sea level was 30 m, which made it possible to ensure its visibility range of up to 10 miles.

In 1960, when the intensity of ship traffic along the Kanin Peninsula increased significantly, a

cool lighthouse in the form of a cylindrical reinforced concrete tower 32.5 m high, painted with white and red horizontal stripes. The lighthouse shines with a white flashing light for 20 miles. The lighthouse is equipped with a radio beacon.

With the introduction of these navigational aids, ships traveling along the Kaninskaya land received additional

a reliable and reliable means of clarifying your geographic location.

Since 1977, the lighthouse has been headed by Nikolai Pavlovich Shishelov, one of the representatives of the Shishelov dynasty of lighthouse makers (see the essay “Tersko-Orlovsky”). His eldest son Alexey Nikolaevich works next to him.