Antonievo-Siya Monastery

Arkhangelsk Region, Kholmogorsky District, Monastyr Village

 Sights of Arkhangelsk The Antonievo-Siya Monastery was founded in the beginning of the 16th century on a cozy peninsula in Mikhailovsky Lake. It so happened that they started talking about the monastery almost at once, glory flashed through Moscow. During the period of the hegumenity of Antony, the modest monastic complex was considerably expanded.

Arkhangelsk Literary Museum

Arkhangelsk, ul. Volodarsky, d. 10

 Sightseeing Arkhangelsk In 1992, on the basis of the Society of Book Lovers, which used to exist in Arkhangelsk, they decided to create a special museum of literature. The founders were two literary figures - the wife of Boris Mikhailovich and Lyudmila Vladimirovna Egorova.

Gostiny Dvor Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk, nab. Northern Dvina, d. 86

 Sightseeing places of Arkhangelsk The history at Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor is very interesting. In the 17th century, Arkhangelsk, for want of its existence, was the trade point of the country. The trade was conducted in the Gostiny Dvor, at that time, built of wood (beginning of the 17th century)

Marfin house

Arkhangelsk, 38 Chumbarova-Lucinsky Prospect

 Sightseeing Arkhangelsk Marfin house is an amazing architecture building, originated in 1858, created it with the money of German builders who were engaged in the timber industry. The draft of the house was approved six years earlier, in 1852.

Arctic Museum in Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk, ul. Pomorskaya, 3

 Sightseeing Arkhangelsk If you want to find a museum in which everything will be told about the Arctic, from the production of ice cream and to the story of the properties of ice, then you definitely need to visit the Museum of Art Development of the Arctic named after A. A. Borisov

Museum of Art Development of the Arctic

Arkhangelsk, ul. Pomorskaya, 3

 Attractions of Arkhangelsk The development of the Arctic began in the distant 980, when the famous Norwegian Eric the Red discovered Greenland. Since then, each new pioneer has made his small contribution to the knowledge of this mysterious and harsh land. Contributed by the famous painter A. Borisov, who went on an expedition with paints.

The Northern Maritime Museum

Arkhangelsk, nab. Northern Dvina, d. 80

 Sightseeing Arkhangelsk The Northern Maritime Museum appeared in Arkhangelsk in 1970, and it was interesting that the sailors themselves founded it. How to swim in the harsh conditions of the northern seas, do not go crazy with the eternal ice, how to cope with all the difficulties and wild cold - it's told in the museum.

There is one city in Russia named after the dearly beloved in Orthodoxy Archangel Michael . This northern city is Arkhangelsk. Wooden buildings - the main "chip" of the ancient Arkhangelsk, which to our days, alas, is practically not preserved because of frequent fires. You can see part of the architectural heritage of this ancient village by visiting Gostiny Dvor. But to look at the reconstruction of wooden structures will help Marfin House.

Before Peter the Great conceived his grandiose project of construction on the Neva of St. Petersburg, it was Arkhangelsk that was the starting point for many routes. But walks in the Arctic seas are not an easy task, as the Northern Maritime Museum and AA Borisov Museum of the Arctic are telling us about.

There is one city in Russia, named after the dearly beloved Archangel Michael of Orthodoxy. This northern city is Arkhangelsk.

But the best sights of Arkhangelsk are located all the same in the district. This is the village of Kholmogory, the birthplace of Lomonosov, a modern center for bone carving, where unique examples of wooden architecture are also preserved. Museum of wooden architecture in the open air in Malye Korely. And also the Pinezhsky Reserve with bicentennial larch, fir, waterfalls and karst caves.