Solovki, Russia

What is Solovki? This is one of the few places on Earth where the history of the last seven thousand years can be seen at every step of your path: parking prehistoric man, labyrinths and mysterious ancient pagan temples, majestic monasteries and hermitages hermits, traces of Russia's first concentration camp ... Today many tourists each year and pilgrims visit Solovki - hurry to see the sights of the islands and, above all, to see the legendary majestic buildings Solovetsky monastery.

Solovetsky archipelago, or Solovki, located in the western part of the White Sea between the Karelian coast of Pomerania and the Summer of the Onega Peninsula, near the Arctic Circle, and consists ... Read more