Vodlozersky National Park (Russian: Водлозерский национальный парк) is a national park in the north of Russia, located in Onezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Pudozhsky District in the Republic of Karelia.

The national park was created to protect coniferous forests (taiga) of Northern Russia.

[2] The first people settled in the Lake Vodlozero area in the prehistoric time, around six to eight thousand years BC.

Russians (Novgorodians colonized the lake area when they were looking for trade routes leading to the White Sea.

Lake Vodlozero was one of the points on the route which further lead to the Onega River, and it was colonized in the 14th to 15th centuries.

The most prominent one is Ilyinsky Pogost, an ensemble of a wooden church surrounded by a wall.