The modern Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared in the 17th or 18th century in the village of Vigorous. The little head of the Church, its pentagonal apse and a spacious refectory especially typical special zaonezhskoe architecture, but despite this, there is no place in the Onega region, where it is so impressive powerful belfry. She rules over the Church, making the Church of St. Nicholas and the value of the lighthouse, which is visible for many miles away.

In the early 15th century the village of Vigoroux was in the possession of a wealthy Novgorod boyar F. Glukhov, and by the 16th century this place has housed several villages, which are United under the General name of Vigorous. This facility was especially important settlement on the ancient paths passing from Novgorod to the White sea. Ships from Shuya sailed on lake Onega right in Vigoroux where the path went by land to the great Lip, and then North. For this reason, the Church of St. Nicholas was not only the construction of culture, but also a kind of beacon.

By the mid-18th century were built the steepled bell tower, which stood separately, and two-cell-like chapel, which were interconnected in a kind of transition. Closer to 1889 the chapel became the Church: appeared extension of the altar, and the room of the bell tower and the Church were connected by a new cut transition; the outer walls were covered with boards and the head and the roofs were covered with iron; the interior walls were Rusticana, the size of the openings have been modified.

The building itself is a wooden structure built from logs. The refectory, the Church and the transition is covered in two slope, and the roof of the altar is batistatou surface. Ice skating has a special dome with located on them crosses. The completion of the bell tower has a high truss tent, which is also topped by a cupola. Eight and a police tent made of red TES with the end in the form of peaks.

As for the interior of the Church, when you look at it, he immediately striking splendor, luster and decorative load of. Ceilings are ravnovesie and flat surface, and the ceiling in the part intended directly for the temple, a little higher compared to other areas. The door that leads from the entrance straight to the refectory, two-stage with glazing and ornamental details. The walls are covered with boards, and their plane slightly above the cap and dismembered special pilasters that cover the corners and the notches. The Church of St. Nicholas has large Windows, dual zone passage, the Church and the refectory. Bell tiers lighted small Windows, placed one on the West and South sides. The Windows framed a simple framework architraves. The first tier of the bell tower has a wide staircase that leads to the canopy. Temple and refectory parts are connected by a wide doorway, topped by a decoration in the form of the arch. The altar is separated carved iconostasis, made in three tiers, with the prospective king's gate portal. The iconostasis and the Royal gates attract attention with bright gilt. The thread has a low relief and a small amount of.

Wall St. Nicholas Church decorated with lots of icons, and the sky is decorated with beautiful painting that goes well with ordinary simple wooden walls. It is known that in the Church building, there were a few particularly valuable and ancient icons, made by masters of the 14th-15th century. Icons placed not in small iconostasis, and on the walls of the refectory. Most likely, these icons have survived from earlier located here local churches, from the building which was moved to the newly-built Church. The earliest icons is an icon called "Apostle Paul", which was written in the 14th or early 15th century renowned local craftsman. In addition found valuable works were discovered and exhibited Novgorod artist, who lived in the 15th century. The icon contains an image of the three saints and the Theotokos. This icon was all of the middle part of the small tricuspid triptych, which was taken along in the old days on the road. Unique the icon was brought to this place in "Novgorod" time.