The Museum is situated in the building of the former village school built in 1877 with the money and the practical activities of the Verkolsky Monastery. The first exposition of the Museum was opened in 1986. The exhibits in the four museum rooms tell of the 30 years of literary work of Fyodor Abramov. The writer’s museum cannot be limited to any building, whether it is a school or his family’s house. His Museum is Verkola as a whole, all the village houses, fields, meadows which have become part of the imaginative world of Abramov’s creations.

The Museum offers visitors an excursion «The way to ’Clear Book’», «Life For Two», «It is a Great Thing, School». The excursion routes in Verkola are also organized by the Museum, they are «Verkola, the native place of Fyodor Abramov», and «History of the Verkolsky Monastery».

The Pinega Local History Museum is in the settlement of Pinega, which used to be an administrative town, a capital of the Pinega Uyezd (district) before the Revolution. The town, in spite of the decades of usual settlement life, has preserved the appearance of a historical town in its central part (the so called Volodinsky Quarter). It is here that the Local History Museum is situated; it houses the collection of items reflecting history and culture of the Land. Started as a school museum it was given the status of a branch of the Arkhangelsk Local History Museum in 1966.

Permanent exhibitions «Life and Daily Pursuits of the Pinega Peasants Before 1917», «Birds and Animals of Our Forests», «The Town of Pinega: 1780-1917», «Political Repressions (1930-1950)», «Churches of the Pinega Land» are being arranged by the Museum, as well as the survey excursion «History of Pinega».

Amateur and Folk Arts House is one of the first arranged in the Arkhangelsk Region. All those wishing to master weaving, belt plaiting, quilting, wood carving and painting come here to study. The works of local artisans are exhibited in many museums both in Russian and abroad. Popularization and promoting of traditional Pinega crafts is an important part of the House activities. They regularly arrange permanent and traveling exhibitions in the District as well as outside it. Amateur and Folk Arts Hous collects the unique traditional Pinega costumes and has got an exhibition called «The Pinega Costume Miniatures» where 23 dolls in folk costumes are exhibited.

In the village of Yorkino there exists a 2-roomed house of crafts opened in 2002 . In the first room there are working places for artisans: looms are always waiting for those who can make wonderful cloth. «Granny’s Chest» contains the ancient men’s and women’s clothes. Those who wish to try them on can do it and for a moment feel themselves in the 17th - 18th centuries. The second room houses a Russian – under the leading of an experienced cook tourists can make rich Russian soup ‘shchi’, porridge or bake ‘shangi’ (scones).

Actually it is an information and educational centre of local history for the local [population and visitors of the Pinega Land. It has got a large and diverse collection of local materials and reference and bibliographic editions. It is a participant of the Project promoted by the Arkhangelsk Regional Library named after N.A. Dobrolyubov which is aimed at making an electronic catalogue «The Russian North». In 1984 the Library was given the name of Fyodor Abramov, the native of the place. In 2000 a memorial hall of F. Abramov was opened in the Library.

The Library users and visitors are offered an excursion «Pinezhye, the oldest land of Russia», exhibitions arranged with the items collected by the Memorial Museum of Fyodor Abramov in Verkola, the unusual exhibitions of the «Souls’ and Hand’ Crafts» cycle, annual Memory Days of Fyodor Abramov, Ioann’s Readings (once in two years), lessons in local history «My Pinega Land», readings of local authors of the «Literary Lounge» cycle.

The «Pinezhsky» State Reserve was founded in 1974, it is situated on the right bank of the Pinega River. Its area is 525 square km. Its strategy is to preserve and study natural phenomena of the northern taiga forests in the East European plateau, of the unique carst objects and their influence on live and inanimate nature, research of rare species of animals and plants which are listed in the Red Book. For more details...

Monasteries used to play an important role in the life of the Pinega Land. Before the Revolution of 1917 there were 3 active monasteries, 8 churches made of stone, 54 wooden churches, 63 chapels in the Pinega Uyezd (district). Some of them have been preserved as monuments of history and architecture. For more details...

Sura is the native place of one of the most respected Russian saints, St. John (Ioann) of Kronstadt. His family was poor. His parents, father Ilya Mikhailovich Sergiyev, junior deacon of the local church, and his mother Feodora Vlasiyevna, decided to give their son a religious education, so he had to leave the native land very early. On graduating from Saint-Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy Father Ioann was appointed a priest to the Andreyevsky Cathedral in the town of Kronstadt. As he had to live far from the native place each time he came to visit the Pinega Land he helped local people with money, treated them for their illnesses showing a great ability to foresee the future. For more details...

15 km from the settlement of Pinega there is the Krasnogorsky Bogoroditsky (the Mother of God) Monastery. The place for it was chosen well – it stands on a high hill from which there is a beautiful panoramic view of the river curve, of the river valley along which villages are scattered. Anyone standing on the hill and looking at the Krasnogorsky Monastery environs has a sensation of a flight which is greater in spring when the water flooding the valley reflects the blue sky and makes the space enormously wide. It was not for nothing that the former name of the hill (before the Cloister was built on it) ‘Chernaya’(black) with the time changed for ‘Krasnaya’ (red or beautiful). The Monastery was founded here in 1603.

The Krasnogorsky Monastery acquired much far-fame at the beginning of the 18th century, then it was often visited by Prince Vasily Golitsyn, a favourite of Tsarevna Sofia, who was sent to the Pinega exile by the order of Peter the Great. According to his will he was buried at the Monastery cemetery (the plate from his grave is now exhibited in the Local history Museum).