Solovetsky Islands

North. It is hard to explain why it fascinates. Is it whales watching at the White Sea? Or, five hundreds years of history of the world-famous Solovetsky Archipelago, the center of Russian culture & spirituality? Ancient stone labyriths or stunning Kizhi island, UNESCO World Heritage site? Or just these deep blue low northern skyes, so low it seemsthese grey clouds by hand? Or this never setting summer sun? Find out, come to explore.

• Explore Russian North & The White Sea

• • Solovetsky Monastery - a UNESCO World Heritage Site

  • Beluga whales and other marine wildlife

  • Solovetsky Islands - Alexander Solzhenitsyn's “The GULAG Archipelago”

  • The world's largest pagan temple of the II-I millennia BC

  • See Russia's first stone harbor

  • Ride a bike on Russia's northermost dam

  • Russia's northernmost botanical garden

  • Stone labyrinths, wooden churches, remote sketes & unique Northern culture

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