Pictures from Arkhangelsk region.

Arkhangelsk is the administrative center of a region on the coast of White Sea, located approximately 1000 km to the north from Moscow.

Alexey Shiryayev presents images of Arkhangelsk. E-mail to: alexshir@hotmail.com.

Modern Dance Ensemble "Mozaika" presents basic information and a few pictures of its home city, Koryazhma. E-mail to: ua1oms@mail.ru.

Arctic Adventures, Inc. presents collection of pictures from Solovetski Monastery and Nenets Tundra (Nenets autonom republic of Arkhangelsk region, capital of the republic is Naryan-Mar). Comments: webmaster@oslonett.no.

Excerpts from demo version of the CD about unigue Solovetsky Monastery include illustrated history and a few pictures from Photo Album. This link was submitted by Kira Litvina ( kira@park.ru ) on September 24, 1996. For more info about CD and the Garant-Park server please write to: info@park.ru or call: +7 (095) 932-9150
Copyright © 1996 Garant-Park

Sibelan Forrester teaching Modern Languages course in the Swarthmore College (PA, USA) constructed his own Virtual Tour of the Monastery on Solovki. He writes in the introduction: "This is a guided tour through my own personal photographs, taken with a borrowed camera, from a one-day visit to the Solovki Islands in July of 1995. I've broken it into three pieces to keep its memory demands from overwhelming: first, the trip to the Islands and the first building on the tour; second, the monastery itself; third, and still incomplete, an informal history of the monastery." Send comments to: sforres1@swarthmore.edu.

The Russian Northern Fleet. Sources of Radioactive contamination Bellona Report 1:1996, 28. August 1996 Written by: Thomas Nilsen, Igor Kudrik and Alexandr Nikitin. This report includes a few photos and illustrations taken in Severodvinsk (nearby Arkhangelsk) and Severomorsk (nearby Murmansk). These photos partially illustrates problems experienced by the fleet with its nuclear powered vessels and with the storage of spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste that the operation of these vessels generates. E-mail to: bellona@sn.no.

Today satellite image (GIF file, about 150kb) and animated satellite image of the Northern Russia and North-East of Europe (Animated GIF89 file). This image is provided by the Space Monitoring Information Support Laboratory (SMIS) of the Space Research Institute in Moscow (Russia). Copyright © Space Monitoring Information Support Laboratory. Send your comments to: webmaster@smis.iki.rssi.ru.

Weather in Arkhangelsk (Russia), 5-day forecast is provided by the USA-Today server. Hm, this is a bit weird, isn't it? Anyway, information is available on-line.

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Last update: June 5, 1999.

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