It is situated in the settlement of Lomonosovo, in the place where once the Lomonosovs’ house stood. There is still a small pond there that belonged to their household. The Memorial Museum was opened in 1940; its collection is about 4 thousand items. The Museum expositions reflect the history and culture of the Arkhangelsk area at time of the Lomonosovs, the life of Mikhailo Lomonosov and his scientific achievements. The Museum possesses the life-time editions of his scientific and literary works. Of special value are the unique collections of the Kholmogory bone carving and the first printed books of the 18th century. There is a village art gallery opened at the Museum. For more details...

Traditions of the craft called ‘the Kholmogory bone carving’ have been forming for five centuries. The materials used for it are tubular bones of cattle, tusks of mammoths, seal’s fangs, cachalot’s teeth. The main techniques applied to bone (combination of fine ornaments and genre picture reliefs, coloured gravures , coloured foil underlining the open-worked items, tinted bone plates) were worked out during the flourishing period of the craft in the 18th century. The most popular were combs, snuff-boxes, little boxes, caskets, furniture covered with bone plates, goblets, etc.

In 1930 a professional school was organized in Kholmogory, the graduates of which became the first artists of the bone-carving artel named after M.V. Lomonosov. The works of modern artists - bone-carvers are a great success at the All-Russian Exhibitions, and very popular both at home and abroad.

Biological reserve of federal subordination was founded in 1963 to preserve, reproduce and restore the number of valuable wild animals as well as to save their habitat. The species protected are elk, blue hare, squirrel, otter, beaver, marten, mink, fox, game. The area of the reserve is 43 thousand hectares.

To make the environment more friendly for animals to live some biotechnical procedures are being arranged, feeding-up of animals is held, artificial pebbly lawns and places where birds can bathe in dust are made.

Special protection is needed for areas where relict plants grow, among them alpine aster, alpine butterwort, Siberian honeysuckle, spring chickweed, brittle bladder-fern, Siberian chrysanthemum, Siberian adonis, white dryas, Oriental spiraea.

37 archeological monuments are located in the reserve area, the most well-known are the Orletskoye Gorodishche (1342-1398), the Kholmogory ‘posad’ (the 15th - 18th centuries) , the remains of the Bazhenins’ Wharfs (the 17th – 18th centuries).

It is a settlement on the right bank of the Northern Dvina River, 84 km from Arkhangelsk and 13 km east of Kholmogory, known since the 16th century. This is the place where the Russian Navy was born.

Much in the history of the settlement is connected with the Bazhenins, the family of local merchants. Osip Andreyevich Bazhenin built the first in Russia hydro-powered sawmill, and began selling boards to foreign merchants. In 1700 Peter the Great granted Osip Bazhenin an honourary title of a shipbuilder and permitted the construction of a wharf, in spring of 1702 the first two frigates were launched in the presence of Peter the Great. By 1783 120 merchant and fishing ships were launched at the Vavchuga Wharf, many of them were ordered by foreign commercial people. The ships went to Norway, Great Britain, the Netherlands, to Spitzbergen. The house of the Bazhenins on a picturesque bank of the Northern Dvina has survived to our times.

The settlement is situated 120 km from Kholmogory, at the 156th km along the motorway M8 Moscow-Arkhangelsk.

In the past it was a ‘pogost’ and a camp called Ust-Yemetsk, one of the first strong points of the Russian colonization of the land. It was founded in the 12th century as a trading station by Novgorodians who were colonizing the land at the time. It is a native place of a poet Nikolai Mikailovich Rubtsov. Places to be seen by tourists are the remains of the site of ancient Yemetsk of the 15th century, the Memorial House of N. Rubtsov, the common grave of the Intervention victims of 1981-1920.

The settlement of Lomonosovo is situated 4 km from Kholmogory. In summer we can get to the famous island of Kurostrov by ferry, in winter – on foot across the river covered by ice. This is the native place of Lomonosov. In the small village of Mishaninskaya Mikhailo Lomonosov was born into a Pomor family of Vasily Dorofeyevich in 1711; the boy whose talent of a researcher proved itself later in almost all branches of science and culture. In the place where the ‘izba’ (house) of the Lomonosovs once stood there is a Historical Museum-Memorial. There is also a bone carving workshop and the School of Bone Carving, the Dmitriyevskaya (St. Dimitry) Church, an architectural monument of the 18th century, a bronze monument to M.V. Lomonosov by the sculptor I.I. Kozlovsky there.

The settlement is on the right bank of the Northern Dvina, 30 km south of Kholmogory, 120 km from Arkhnagelsk. The Orletskaya archeological site is an important monument with area of 2 thousand square km. Excavations revealed numerous artifacts belonging to several historical eras – Neolithic, Bronze and early Iron Age. Facing the settlement are the remains of the Orlets Fortress which had been erected on a high cliff in 1342 by Novgorodians.

It is an architectural monument of the beginning of the 18th century, the only one which has survived in the settlement since Lomonosov’s times. Lomonosov knew the architect P.K. Nekrasov personally and eye-witnessed the process of building the Church. Papers signed by M.V. Lomonosov in 1726-1730 have been found in the church archives. It makes the Church not only historically valuable but also important as a memorial. In 1997 the Church was given back to the Russian Orthodox Church, to the Arkhangelsk Eparchy.

Svyato-Troitsky Antoniyevo Siysky Monastery (the Holy Trinity Monastery of Antony of Siya), a unique monument of the Russian architecture of the 16th century, stands on the shore of the Mikhailovskoye Lake, 160 km from Arkhangelsk. It is an active cloister today, old walls of which see new monastic life. The main buildings are being restored and rebuilt; services and baptismal ceremonies are held. For more details...

The ensemble made of stone comprises the five-domed Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of Our Saviour) Cathedral, the two-tiered tent-roofed bell-tower and Hierarchal Chambers with the Jame’s gateway church. They were built in 1680-1690.

Six-pillared Cathedral reminded much the Uspensky (Dormition) Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin in its architectural style. Up to the year of 1825 the Cathedral used to serve as a burial place for Kholmogory bishops. At present it is in a state of decay.

Two-storey Hierarchal Chambers have survived with some changes, but nevertheless it is history and antiquity that permeate the place. Under the first bishop Afanasy the Chambers housed a marvelous library (of more than 500 volumes). Here they translated books from Latin, Greek, German and compiled all kinds of collections. The Chambers entered the Russian history as a place of 36-years imprisonment of the Braunschweig Family. Anna Leopoldovna, the then ruler, and her spouse Anton Ulrich, the father of the heir-to-be to the Russian throne Ioann VI, found their last shelter here. Much later the Chambers housed the Marine School and the Uspensky (Assumption) Convent.

In 1997 the complex of monuments of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral were returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, to the Arkhangelsk Eparchy.