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09/18/07
Tourism, Religion Collide On Russian Islands
Categories: The Regions, Arkhangelsk
There's an interesting piece in today's New York Times about the Solovetsky Islands, an area rich in Russian religious and political history.
The six islands, which are also known as Soloviki, are part of Arkhangelsk oblast, which I wrote about a few weeks back.
Six hundred years ago, the islands became the home... more
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05/30/07
Russia's Regions: Arkhangelsk
Categories: The Regions, Arkhangelsk
Where is it? Arkhangelsk Oblast, or region, is about 600 miles north of Moscow, just shy of the Arctic Circle. It has nearly 2,000 miles of coastline on the Barents, Kara and White seas. It is in the same time zone as Moscow.
What's the biggest city? Arkhangelsk city accounts for 356,051 of the 1,336,539 people in the region. Other big cities are Severodvinsk (once known as Molotovsk after Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's foreign affairs minister and creator of the eponymous incendiary device), which... more
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