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The Pinega District
The Pinega District is situated in the north-east of the Arkhangelsk Region, in the basin of the Pinega River, the right tributary of the Northern Dvina and the Kuloi River. The Pinega District is surrounded by the Mezen, Kholmogory, Vinogradovsky, Verkhnetoyemsky, Leshukonye and Primorsky Districts of the Arkhangelsk Region and by Udorsky District of the Komi Republic. From north-east to south-west it is 339 km long, from west to east it is 204 km. The River Pinega runs across the District for 594 km. The total District area is 34.2 thousand square km. The population is 32.2 thousand people. The administrative centre of the District is the settlement of Karpogory, the distance to the Regional centre is 217 km. There are 124 settlements inside the 15 municipalities in the District. For more information on the District...
The Pinega Land
The Pinega Land is one of the sources of the Russian culture in the Russian, the land which has preserved the cultural roots of its inhabitants. The Pinega Land is that part of the Russian North where pilgrims that are not indifferent to the ancestors’ heritage still come to find out the answer to the questions – who are we? where are we from?
Is there any other place in the world where the villages themselves are open-air museums, where old songs are passed on from generation to generation, where granny’s sarafans (Russian women’s outfits) answer their purpose and are still worn , where the past and the present are so closely interwoven that become a single whole.
The spiritual strength that unites the Pinega people is founded on ‘bylinas’ (epic tales) and songs remembered and passed from grandmothers to their grandchildren, on special Pinega dialect dating back to the 12th century, morals and manners when children are respected and dead are remembered, on ancient traditions and customs – from orderly cemeteries to the holidays celebrations both patron saints’ days and folk holidays.
The Northern weather with its Epiphany frosts and summer blazing heat does not bear falseness in people’s deeds. Maybe this is why the Pinega Land is famous for the houses that were made by peasants centuries ago, for the churches built without a nail. They stand in the most beautiful places, on high banks of the Pinega River as monuments of wooden architecture; reflected in the clear waters they remind ships from the past coming to visit us.
The complex programmes for developing village, pilgrim and extreme tourism are being realized in the Pinega Land.
The say about the Pinega Land, «You get attached to Pinega immediately, you leave it with sadness and you remember it forever».
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It was not easy for the first Russian explorers to get to the northern parts. Dense forests, bogs, numerous rivers stood in their way, ‘the route is impassable for the precipices, snow and forest’, the ancient Nestor’s chronicles say. Nevertheless, since the 11th century the Novgorod people come to the Pinega Land. The opening up of new lands in the Pinega area had taken many decades, even centuries. Though we do not have exact information, but there are legends that the Chud tribes opposed them vehemently. Today the archeologists find arrow ends, spears, axes near the settlement of Pinega, the villages of Nemnyuga, Kevrola, Sura. It is considered that the Novgorod invaders had come from the mouth of the River Pinega but they had not reached its sources, as somewhere in the area of Viya and Pinezhka tributaries ‘Chud beloglazaya’ was living later, then the tribes assimilated with the Moscow settlers who had come to Pinega from the south. For more details... |
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The section informs on the main places of interest in the settlement of Pinega and the Pinezhsky District. For more details... |
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Please, check up the information on transport schedules as it is tends to change with time. For more details... |
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The section informs on hotels, mini-hotels, hotel complexes to stay in the Pinega District. For more details... |
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«Golubino» Tourism and Recreation Complex
Pinezhsky Reserve
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Extreme tourism
Diving in the Pinega lakes
Mysteries of the Pinega caves
Tourist programs & tours
«Ancient Russian holidays in the northern province»
«Zapovednaya Chud»
«Secret Pinega Land»
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Monastery
