2023 45COM 7B.197 - Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands (Russian Federation) (C 632) 2021 44COM 7B.159 - Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands (Russian ...

Russia's Solovetsky Islands, less than 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, have become a popular tourist destination. Originally an outpost of the... Residents, Church Vie For History-Rich Russian Isles ...

A group of scholars and public figures is petitioning for a special status for the Solovetsky Islands – revered in Russia as the home of a monastery and the site of the Soviet Union’s first prison cam ...

MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree on setting up a fund for preserving and developing the Solovetsky Islands archipelago. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and ...

The Solovetsky Islands, or Solovki, are an archipelago located in the White Sea’s Onega Bay. The six islands of the archipelago cover an area of 347 square kilometers. The islands and a five-kilometer ...

Solovetsky Islands, Russia – It may be an awesome photo: the soaring cupolas of the monastery rise from Russia’s White Sea just as Alexander Solzhenitsyn described them, but snap-happy tourists at the ...

The new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church said that he would like to see a former Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands off the northern coast of Russia transformed into a spiritual center.

August 2013: joint UNESCO/ICCROM/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission; July 2015: ICOMOS Advisory mission; April 2018: joint UNESCO/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission 2018 Report on the joint UNESCO ...

When you look up "Volga tours" on the Internet, most advertise a quick St. Petersburg-to-Moscow trip, though technically neither city is on the Volga. But the Volga is more than a river. It is an ...