It is one of the oldest drama theatres in the North. The creative image of the troupe is greatly influenced by classical plays and by the best pieces of modern drama. In November 1961 when the country celebrated the 250th anniversary of M.V. Lomonosov, the Theatre was named after the great compatriot.

The Arkhangelsk Puppet Theatre is twice a laureate of the National Theatre Prize «Golden Mask» (1996,2003), a prize winner of the International Festival «Nevsky Pierrot», a participant and a diploma holder of many international children’s theatre festivals. It successfully played on tours across Russia, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Greece

The Arkhangelsk Regional Young People’s Theatre

The Theatre has lived through several stages in its development from an amateur theatre group to a professional troupe; lately it initiated the International Street Theatres Festival and «European Spring» Music and Theatre Festival in Arkhangelsk. The Young People’s Theatre has been a participant of a theatre festival in Avignon (France) for many years. For more details...

The Museum Union «Artistry Culture of the Russian North»

The Museum Union collections number about 30 thousand exhibits which give a clear notion of different schools and styles of the centuries-old art history in the Russian North. Of particular value is the unique collection of icons of the 14th - 18th centuries, of the so-called «Northern Painting». Structurally the Museum Union has five subsidiaries: Fine Arts Museum, S.G.Pisakhov Museum, Museum of Artistic Opening up of Arctic named after A.A. Borisov, an old Private Residence in Naberezhnaya, E.K.Plotnikova’s City Residence.

The Arkhangelsk Regional Museum of Local History

Being one of the oldest museum collections in Russia, it reflects all the peculiarities and variety of the Northern nature in a concentrated way, and presents the colourful history of the land from pre-historic times to our days. For more details...

The Gostinye Dvory (the Guests’ Yard) is a unique monument of Russian stone architecture of XVII century, one of a few of this kind preserved in Russia. This great construction of social character united trade and defense functions became the core of Arkhangelsk.

The construction of the Yard lasted from 1668 to 1684. Simultaneously two separated complexes were erected, the Russian Guests’ Yard and the German Guests’ Yard. Each of them formed a square with an area in the middle. A little bit later the Yards were completed with military elements turned the complex to the stone town-fortress. Town walls, angle towers were constructed and ditches were dug around the periphery.

Today withindoors the Gostinye Dvory there is the museum and exhibition complex of the regional museum of local lore.

Novodvinskaya Fortress is an architectural monument of the beginning of the 18th century. The only fortification of bulwark type in the North, it was built in the mouth of the Northern Dvina in 1701 on the order of Peter the Great to get ready for the Great Northern War. The role and strategic importance of the Fortress at the time could only be compared to those of the Solovetsky Monastery. In plan it is a square with four bulwarks in its corners, all the necessary services were housed in the buildings inside the square. Georg Ernest Reze, a Dutch engineer, was in charge of the construction. Peter the Great took a personal interest in the construction of the fortress, which later became a model for the Petropavloskaya (Peter and Paul) Fortress in Saint-Petersburg. Armed with 180 guns the Novodvinskaya Fortress was one of the most powerful defense constructions of the young Russian State for those times.

The Fortress existed till 1864. With the closure of the Arkhangelsk port for the Navy the complex of fortification around gradually deteriorated. The last attempt -of measuring and of some repairing - was done in 1913. Today the Fortress is used as an object for tourists to see from the passing boats on the Northern Dvina River.

The Solovetsky Monastery Arkhangelsk Town Residence is a complex of architectural monuments of the 18th - 19th centuries. The main building and its north-west wing, the Church devoted to the Reverend Zosima, Savvaty and Gherman, a hotel, ware-houses have survived till our days. For more details...

The Lutheran Kirk of Saint Catherine (1768). Its facades initially followed the pattern of the Western European standards. Now, having survived four fires, the monument shows great changes, its baroque decor has been lost almost completely. It is used as a Philharmonic Society smaller hall for organ music concerts.

Everybody knows that the Father the Frost lives on the North Pole. But his first fairy-tale house was founded in Arkhangelsk in 1991. In winter Village of the Father the Frost is decorated with figures made with ice. In summer the Village is populated with fairy-tales heroes.

N. Butorov’s (10 Pomorskaya Str) and Y. Plotnikova’s (1 Pomorskaya Str) stone houses. At present the buildings house museums, the Museum Union «Artistry Culture of the Russian North» has opened its expositions there.

A monument to M.V.Lomonosov (1826-1829) is by sculptor I.P. Martos. The bronze figure in ‘pseudo-classical’ style is placed in front of the Technical University. It was the first monument to the great scientist and is considered the most original one.

A monument to Peter the Great (1911, by the sculptor M.M. Antokolsky) was officially opened in 1914. The Tsar- reformer is depicted standing up straight, as an officer of the Preobrazhensky Regiment. The life-size bronze figure is interpreted as a true portrait of the Tsar and an embodiment of the power of the Russian State. In 1950 the monument was moved to the historical place of the city’s foundation. The architect S. Pets chiseled four dates on the sides of the 5-meter-high foundation of grey granite – 1693, 1694, 1702, 1911. The first three dates commemorate Peter’s the Great visits to Arkhangelsk, the last date is the date of erecting the monument.

The «Obelisk of the North» Monument (sculptor I.K. Altukhov) (was inaugurated in 1930 to honour the establishing of a new territorial unit - the Northern Krai. It is erected in front of the Region Administration Building.

Military Memorial of Great Britain, the USA and Canada was opened on the territory of the Kuznechevsky Ship-Repairing Plant in 1920-1930; here 449 soldiers and officers were buried, they perished during the foreign military intervention to the North of Russia. In the 1930s some of the remains were transferred to the native countries of the buried soldiers. At the time of the World War II allied countries citizens and northern convoy participants were buried there.

The Obelisk to the Victims of the Intervention of 1918-1920 (by architect V.M. Kibirev) was erected in Naberezhnaya Severnoi Dviny at the place where 49 heroes of Resistance were buried.