Lomonosov, Mikahailo Vasilyevich (1711-1765), scientist, poet, enlightener. He was born in the village of Mishaninskaya of the Kurostrov Volost of the Dvinsky Uyezd of the Arkhangelsk Gubernia on November 8 (19), 1711. In 1721-1723 he learned to read and write with Ivan Shubny and Semyon Sabelnikov, a sexton of the local church. On January 15, 1731, he was admitted to the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow. In November 1735 together with the other 12 students of the Academy he was sent to Petersburg, to the Academy of Science to continue education. In July 1739 Lomonosov graduated from the Marburg University and received a certificate of his success in sciences signed by J.G. Duising and C. Wolff. On May 26, 1740, he married Elizabeth Christina Zilch at the Reformers’ Community Church of Marburg.

In July 1745 he was appointed professor of chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Petersburg. On October 12, 1748, the construction of the first research and studies chemical laboratory designed by M. Lomonosov was finished. On February 13, 1757, M.V. Lomonosov was appointed a councilor of the Academy Office, three years later he was appointed head of the Academia’s University and Gymnasium.

On April 30, 1760, he was elected honourary member of Sweden Academy of Sciences. In 1763 he became an honorary member of Academy of Three Most Important Arts, in April the next year he was elected honourary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Bologna Institute. On April 4, 1765 M.V. Lomonosov died in his own house by the Moika River. He was buried at the Lazarevskoye Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

Shergin, Boris Viktorovich (1896-1973), writer, narrator, folklore researcher. He was born in Arkhangelsk; though he lived in Moscow permanently since the beginning of the 1920s, his creative works were devoted to the Russian North, to the Pomor people, and nature of the North. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Pisakhov, Stepan Grigoryevich (1879-1960), writer, fairy tales author, painter. He is known as a glorifier of the Russian North in the history of Russian literature and fine art. As a painter, folklore researcher and ethnographer Pisakhov explored the coast of the White Sea, visited the Novaya Zemlya, Yugorsky Shar, was a member of the first polar expedition of V. Rusanov (later he took part in the search of the lost groups of G. Brusilov, Rusanov, G. Sedov; together with Captain V.Voronin he went to save the expedition of U. Nobile), he visited the Novaya Zemlya more than ten times.

Shubin, Fedot Ivanovich (1740-1805), great Russian sculptor. He was born in the Arkhangelsk Gubernia, where he lived till the year 1759.

Romanov, Fyodor Nikitich (1553-1633), Filaret in monastic life, Russian political figure, Patriarch (1619), father of Mikhail Fyodorovich, the first Russian Tsar of the Romanovs Dynasty. In 1601 Fyodor Nikitich was forcibly made a monk under the name of Filaret and exiled to the Antony of Siya Monastery which was situated by the Siysky Lakes in the Kholmogory District of the Arkhangelsk Region.