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Stuff.co.nz
March 11, 2018
In winter, take a snowmobile trip across the frozen Lake Onega to Kizhi Island, home to the magnificent Cathedral of the Transfiguration, crowned with 22 onion domes. This is also a wonderful place to see the shimmering glow of the northern lights, and perhaps try your hand at ice-fishing. STAYING THEREÃâà...
Kyiv Post
March 2, 2018
Under Oleg, the various Rus states united into a single political unit stretching from the Baltic Sea, Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega in the north, to the tip of Crimea (though not the whole of the peninsula) in the south. What is now southern and eastern Ukraine, though partly settled by Slavs, was mostly notÃâà...
Architectural Digest
November 16, 2017
One of the best things about design is that it has no boundaries. Never has this been more obvious, perhaps, than in the makeup of our most sacred sites. And while we may read from different scriptures and follow the words of another God, when we step foot into any house of worship, it's hard not to feelÃâà...
Open Democracy
November 16, 2017
She was found guilty of illegally turning two hectares of agricultural land into an area for holiday cabin development — her former district covers the western shoreline of Lake Onega. Today, that land lies as fallow as it's been for decades. New municipal head Alexey Luchin explains that because ChechilÃâà...
Open Democracy
September 5, 2017
It's early August and we are chatting on a makeshift wooden bench in the heart of the memorial complex at Sandarmokh, on the northern shore of Lake Onega in Karelia. Sandarmokh, a forest 12km from the town of Medvezhegorsk, is the place where, in a space of roughly 10 hectares, between 6,500 andÃâà...
The Guardian
August 3, 2017
The pine trees creak and rustle ominously beneath even the faintest breeze, as if the vast forest between Lake Onega and the Finnish border remains reluctant to give up its dark secrets. The secret police brought 6,241 gulag prisoners to these woods during Joseph Stalin's Great Terror in 1937-8, put themÃâà...
Phys.Org
July 21, 2017
Snow, ice and clouds dominate the image, providing us with an overall view of the area's climate when this image was captured on 6 March. Sentinel-3 offers a 'bigger picture' for Europe's Copernicus programme by systematically measuring Earth's oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor andÃâà...
BarentsObserver
November 21, 2013
According to the Environmental Control Authority, the Oil Base every year discharges about 50,000 cubic meters of polluted waste waters to Lake Onega. The company in 2012 paid a 190,000 ruble (€4200) fine for the pollution and a new fine is in the pipeline for 2013, Respublika informs. The situation inÃâà...
Starts at 60
December 31, 1999
Absorb the picturesque Russian countryside as you cruise towards the tranquil waters of Lake Onega, Europe's second-largest lake. Insider Experience: Set out on a guided walking tour through the Open Air Museum of Architecture, a renowned World Heritage-listed site on Kizhi Island. Marvel at the collection of woodenÃâà...
TheCable
December 31, 1999
Lake Onega and the open air museum of Kizhi are among the most famous travel destinations in Russia. Church-of-Transfiguration-at-Kizhi-island-in-Russia. Suzdal. An ancient cite, its monuments, cathedrals, and other buildings take tourists on a trip down memory lane — to the historical past of Russia.
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