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Solvychegodsk
Today Solvychegodsk is known as a balneological resort, it is famous for its white stone Russian architecture monuments of the 16th - 17th centuries and its remarkable museum containing unique collections of icons of ‘the Stroganovs’ School’, silver applied art objects and gold embroidery.
Over 40 monuments of the white stone architecture have been preserved in the town. The most famous are the family church of the Stroganovs, the Blagoveshchensky (Annunciation) Cathedral which is the most valuable monument of the Russian stone construction art with frescoes of the 16th century; and the Cathedral of the Vvedensky (the Prersentation in the Temple) Monastery, the splendid monument of the Russian Baroque art of the 17th century which impresses with its huge 7-tier carved iconostasis and icons of ‘the Stroganov’s School’.
The present-day Solvychegodsk is a native place of the literary personage Kozma Prutkov; to honour him there is an annual Kozma Prutkov Festival of Humour held in July. The tradition to have Prokopiyevskaya Fair has been renewed in the town.
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The town of Solvychegodsk or Sol-Vychegodskaya, or Usolye Vychegodskoye, as it was called in ancient times, is an old Russian Northern town on the banks of the Vychegda River, a tributary of the Northern Dvina, in the Kotlas District of the Arkhangelsk Region. Solvychegodsk was founded in the second half of the 15th century (it was first mentioned in Ust-Vymsky Yarensky Letopisets (Chronicles) under the year of 1492) by people from Novgorod and Suzdal. It had developed as a town only by the middle of the 16th century. Situated along the way to Siberia Solvychegodsk was developing quickly. Its flourishing was favoured by its strategic geographical situation along the busy water ways and by brisk rise of salt production. In the second half of the 16th – the 17th centuries Solvychegodsk became a large centre of salt production, industries and trade, as well as the main residence of the famous dynasty of the Stroganovs. For more details... |
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The section informs on the main places of interest of the town of Solvychegodsk. 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 town of Solvychegodsk. For more details... |
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«Solvychegodsk» Sanatorium |
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Event tourism
Regional Humour Festival of Kozma Prutkov |
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