It took nine days in unheated train carriages for the first Soviet prisoners to get from Moscow to Solovki – the infamous forced labour camp on the Solovetsky Islands, a small archipelago isolated ...
The students’ key task was to analyze water in lakes and rivers, the project’s leader Svetlana Tyukina told TASS, adding water in lakes on the Bolshoy Solovetsky Island was cleaner year-on-year ...
Russia is a land of riddles wrapped in mysteries. Everywhere from its North to South, East to West. Join us in exploring the largest country on Earth in our new series ‘Russian Life’. We begin our ...
MOSCOW -- Historian Yury Brodsky sees the far northern Solovki Archipelago as a kaleidoscopic microcosm of Russia -- its history, culture, nature, and spirit all brought together in one remote and ...
The Karelian islands were the first concentration camp of the Gulag Archipelago and a great center of spirituality. But today's monks have decided to make it a center for religious tourism, ...
About a 150 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle lie the Solovetsky Islands. The islands, also called Solovki, are famous throughout Russia for their stark beauty, but they are also known for a ...
In August 2015 the RBTH team went to Solovetsky islands (or Solovki) to try to thread all the historical strands into a single fabric and answer the question: what lies buried in Solovki’s memory?
The Solovetsky Islands (Solovki) are home to one of the oldest and most beautiful monasteries in Russia. At the same time, the place is remembered historically as the largest Soviet forced labor camp.
Saint Zosimas, Igumen of Solovki a great luminary of the Russian North, was the founder of cenobitic monasticism on Solovki Island. He was born in Novgorod diocese, in the village of Tolvui near Lake ...
“Today in Solovki, tomorrow in the rest of Russia”, they say. Founded in the 15th Century on a remote archipelago in the White Sea, Solovetsky monastery (or “Solovki”) was once Russia’s most ...
The Karelian islands were the first concentration camp of the Gulag Archipelago and a great center of spirituality. But today's monks have decided to make it a center for religious tourism, ...
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