Description 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 of six large and many small islands. The most famous Bolshoi Solovetsky Island - about 25 kilometers long and 16 wide (246 sq. km). Other islands is much smaller and located on either side of him: to the east - Anzersky island (47 square kilometers), south islands - Big and Small Muksalma (17 and 0.57 square kilometers) and on the west side - the islands of Greater and Lesser Zayatsky (1,25 and 1,02 sq km). All the islands are relatively flat terrain with small hills. Its unique brokenness Solovetskya shores, boulder deposits along the sea, vast tracts of mixed forest, scattered among these lakes.