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The Arkhangelsk Area is famous for its rich history, great people and huge achievements. From here and straight into Eternity walked the scientist and reformer Mikhailo Lomonosov, the sculptor Fedot Shubin, the Arctic glorifier and artist Alexander Borisov, the governor of the first Russian colonies in Alaska Alexander Baranov, the courageous Polar researchers who discovered Grumant (Spitzbergen) and Novaya Zemlya, the explorers Semyon Dezhnev, Vasily Poyarkov, Vladimir Atlasov, Yerofei Khabarov, who were born in Solvychegodsk, Veliky Ustyug, Yarensk, Mezen.
The Pomor Land selected by Peter the Great for building the first Russian sea port became a cradle of the Russian Fleet. It is here that the famous ‘three-coloured’ flag was hoisted up the mast of the first Russian ship.
The tourist and recreation potential of the Arkhangelsk Region is unique, it holds a leading position in Russia in the number of monuments of cultural and historical heritage.
The first thing to be seen is the historical and cultural complex of the Solovetsky Archipelago, listed by UNESCO as a world heritage monument, which comprises about 200 monuments from the 3d millennium B.C. to the present times.
The harmony of proportions and the beauty of silhouettes impress visitors in many architectural chef-d’oeuvres – in outstanding fortification constructions of the Solovetsky Kremlin and the Novodvinsk Fortress, in temple complexes of Kargopol, Solvychegodsk, Verkola, Siya rare in their interior beauty, in wooden architectural monuments which glorify the Russian North as a cradle of the Russian wooden architecture.
Of the 800 archeological monuments the most interesting are Neolithic sanctuaries, Saami burial grounds, dolmens and labyrinths on the Solovki, pre-historic settlements of legendary Chud’ tribes along the rivers of Vel, Pinega, Mosha.
Monumental painting is presented with the unique iconostases in the cult constructions, with the brilliant samples of murals, including the so-called ‘nebesa’ (‘heaven’ - painted vaults) which are peculiar only to the wooden churches in the Russian North.
Important sources of cultural and educational tourism are museum collections (more than 500 thousand objects), folklore, rituals, singing and music of the Pomor people. The audience both in Russia and abroad is well acquainted with the art of Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir, of the «Siverko» Dancing and Singing Ensemble, of the Arkhangelsk Chamber Orchestra, of the folk groups from Pinega, Mezen, Leshukonye.
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