Kargopol, Solvychegodsk and Veliky Ustyug

08:30 Breakfast.

09:00 Bus and walking expedition to the "Oshevenskaya parish". 

In addition to the village of Oshevenskoye, the way will be to the villages of Saunino and Pogost (50 km). This is the second most important place in Kargopolye, where you should definitely visit. An ancient reviving monastery, wooden architecture and traditional crafts for the Russian North coexist here at the same time.

The village of Oshevenskoye is an outstanding historical and landscape monument of the Russian North. Residential buildings in the old layout organically coexist with chapels, churches, and the monastery complex. But artifacts of pagan culture have also been preserved here — votive crosses, holy grove, cult worship stones — traces. And it's amazing!

In the village of Saunino there is the Church of St. John Chrysostom. It is a tent temple built in 1665. Inside, the temple is covered with a picturesque ceiling — "painted skies". The hexagonal bell tower of the XVIII century gives the whole ensemble a complete and unique look. 

Ensembles of monuments of wooden architecture are also expected in the village with the wonderful name Pogost. In ancient times, this word meant not only a cemetery, but also a common place of nearby settlements. 

Not all settlements have been preserved, but the village of Pogost has been preserved and is part of the Association of the most beautiful villages in Russia. That's why people come here from different lands — near and very far.

12:00 Rustic Oshevenski lunch with homemade bread and pies from a Russian oven. After lunch, we continue our acquaintance with Kargopol and go to the village of Archangel, where on the left bank of the Onega River there are two wooden churches — Archangel Michael (1715) and the Presentation of the Lord (about 1820).

The first one is unique in that it is completed with a cubed roof, known only in the Poonezhye and on the Prionezhsky shore of the White Sea. Cuba has a traditional five-domed church. The apse is blocked by a barrel.

The Sretensky Church has a helmet-shaped roof with a dome at the end. The Temple of the Presentation of the Lord belongs to the type of tiered temples.

13:30 We return to Kargopol along the ancient postal route through the village of Volosovo, where the ruined remains of the Nikolsky wooden temple (1670) are located. The village of Volosovo is also known in the history of the Poonezhye region as one of the "schismatic nests". One of the last self-immolations took place here in 1860.

15:00 Free time to continue exploring the city on your own. 

For an additional fee, the following services are offered:

• A country bus tour to the village of Bolshye Lyadiny (37 km) with a check—in (if there is a driveway) to the village of Krasnaya Lyaga, where the unique tent Sreteno - Mikhailovskaya Church (1655) with its amazing exterior decoration has been preserved (self-inspection). An external inspection of the multi—headed Epiphany Church (1793) with a semicircular porch - gulbishche in the village of Lyadiny. Visit to the ethnographic museum "Lyadinskoe uzorochye" (the revival of the linen industry, objects of peasant life, the history of the village). The cost of the tour is 2,000 rubles/person.
• Inspection of exhibitions and expositions of the Kargopol Museum. The price is according to the museum's price list.
• Visit to the Bereginya Folk Crafts Center, which is located in a building that is an architectural monument of the early 19th century. Traveling through the workshops of the Folk Crafts Center, you will come into contact with traditional northern crafts: birch bark weaving, patchwork, folk rag doll, weaving, clay toy. "Reborn craft" is the name of the exposition of our small museum, where the warmth of the hands and soul of the masters is stored in the images and plots of toys made of clay. Souvenir shop. The cost is according to the price list of the center.

18:00 Dinner (for an additional fee).

22:30 Room release. 

Transfer to Nyandoma station (78 km).

00:45 Departure by train No. 371 Arkhangelsk — Kotlas.

10:46 Arrival at Kotlas Yuzhny station. Meeting tourists at the main entrance to the railway station from the side of the platform with a sign. 

Transfer to Solvychegodsk (30 km).

12:00 Sightseeing walking tour — Saline Lake, mineral spring, embankment of the Vychegda river.

Excursion to the Annunciation Cathedral — the house church of the Stroganov merchants (XVI century), which houses the exposition of the Solvychegod Historical and Architectural Museum. Frescoes and an iconostasis of the XVII century have been preserved in the interior of the temple.

The bell tower of the cathedral offers a wonderful panorama of this small county town. Acquaintance with the Vvedensky monastery, founded in the XVII century near the Salt Lake, on the shore of which the salt barn has been preserved.

The seven—tiered carved iconostasis and icons of the Stroganov school of the XVII century, impressive in size, have been preserved in the main temple of the monastery - the Vvedensky Cathedral.

During the excursion day, time is allocated for an independent snack in the Solvychegodsk cafe.

16:00 Transfer to Veliky Ustyug (101 km).

18:00 Accommodation at the Dvina Hotel in rooms with amenities. 

Free time.

08:30 Breakfast in the hotel cafe. Room release.

09:00 Sightseeing walking tour with a visit to the temple of Prokopiy Ustyuzhsky.

During the tour, tourists will visit the Cathedral Courtyard, get acquainted with the ensemble of the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Monastery (founded in the XII century), see beautiful monuments of stone architecture — the Churches of the Transfiguration of the Savior and the Sretensky Transfiguration of the XII-XVIII centuries, the churches of the Ascension and St. Nicholas of the XVII century, monuments of civil architecture, walk along the embankment of the Sukhona River.

11:30 Visit to the souvenir shops "Severnaya rabble" and "Korobeynik".

12:00 An excursion to the Museum of Ancient Russian Art is held in the Church of the Ascension. The Museum of Ancient Russian art was created in the architectural monument of the XVII century — the Church of the Ascension, where a museum tour was organized.

Today, the temple is a rare monument, distinguished by the integrity of its interior. The Ustyuzha icon painting is especially vividly represented in the Museum of Ancient Russian Art.

About 70 monuments of iconographic art of the XV–XVII centuries are on display, 33 of them are shown for the first time. The famous "Ustyuzha letters" are presented, with their elegance of drawing and calligraphic purity of lines, careful drawing of details and exquisite coloring.

In the case of a weekend or a sanitary day at the Church of the Ascension, the tour is replaced by a sightseeing tour of the museum's storage facility.

Summary: in the depository — the repository of museum funds, a sightseeing tour of the museum's storage facility is conducted — numerous collections, including tiles and furniture, artistic birch bark and samovars, glass and porcelain, books and documents.

13:00 Lunch at the cafe.

14:00 For an additional fee, you can choose from: 

• A trip to the Country Estate of Santa Claus — a visit to the fairy-tale house of the gray-haired wizard, the Trail of Fairy tales and the forge of Santa Claus. The cost is 2,900 rubles/person.
• Excursion to the museum of the Severnaya Chernya factory. The cost is 500 rubles/person.
• Excursion to the ethnographic museum "Art of the Ustyuzha land" in the St. Nicholas Church building. The rich stock collections made it possible to show the variety of folk art of the Ustyuzha region of the XVII – early XX centuries: patterned weaving (pestle, remiz, brane, elective), embroidery, cubic stuffing, wood carving and painting, forging and cutting, ceramics. The cost is 800 rubles/person.
• Excursion to the Trinity-Gledensky Monastery. At the confluence of the Sukhona and South rivers, the city of Gleden stood on a high hill in ancient times. A monastery in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity was founded near the city, which is rightfully considered one of the oldest in the Russian North. The iconostasis, rare in beauty, revived in the 70s of the XX century by Moscow restorers, is admired by all who come on a museum tour to the Trinity-Gledensky Monastery. Visit to the Dymkovskaya Sloboda. Panorama of the embankment of Veliky Ustyug. The tour is bus-walking, held only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 2,700 rubles/person.
• Excursion to the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Cathedral, the decoration of which is a high three—tiered carved gilded iconostasis of the 17th and 18th centuries, which combines two styles - Baroque and classicism. Four paintings of different times from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved on the porch of the cathedral, including the unique "Old Man's Parables". The tour is a walking tour, held only in summer (from May to September). The cost is 850 rubles/person.

17:45 Transfer to Kotlas Yuzhny (70 km).

19:22 Departure of tourists by train No. 97 Vorkuta — St. Petersburg.

20:12 Departure of tourists by train No. 375 Vorkuta — Moscow.