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11:00 Meeting with the guide at the Arkhangelsk airport.
Transfer to the city. Free time for breakfast.
14:00 Meeting with the guide at the railway station.
Sightseeing tour of the city of Arkhangelsk.
Arkhangelsk is an ancient city on the shores of the beautiful Northern Dvina River, combining the traditional features of the Russian regional center and the unique charm of the Russian North.
It is the country's strategic stronghold in the Arctic, the center of exploration and development of the Northern Sea Route.
The tour will introduce you to the history of the city of Arkhangelsk, its main attractions:
- Cape Pur-Pillowcase,
- the place of foundation of the city;
- an ensemble of Living rooms of the XVII century, striking contemporaries with their power and beauty;
- Monument to Peter I and M.V.Lomonosov;
- The Red Pier, from where the northern expeditions set off;
- Monuments of military glory of Arkhangelsk.
Lunch at the restaurant with dishes of Pomeranian cuisine in a special reading from the chef of freshly caught gifts of the White Sea (extra charge).
On the menu: Vinaigrette of baked vegetables with smoked cod, Triple Royal ear, Cod with stewed sour cream, new potatoes and burnt tomatoes, Bread basket, Northern berry juice.
The menu can be changed at the initiative of the restaurant.
Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvory. Visit to the Museum of local lore (optional for an additional fee).
This is one of the oldest museums in Russia, the exposition of which reflects the entire identity of the Pomeranian region.
Here you can see:
- a wooden cross cut down personally by Emperor Peter;
- authentic items from Willem Barents' first Arctic wintering in 1598;
- on which boats did the Pomors conquer the northern seas, how did they process wood and cook salt;
- admire the bizarre carvings on the Kholmogorskaya bone and Arkhangelsk facial sewing;
- consider models from Viking schooners and the yacht "St. Peter" to steamships, striking with the subtlety of work and accuracy of reproduction.
Also here you can "find yourself" on a drifting Arctic station, see navigation devices and the only means of communication that connected polar explorers to the Mainland.
A walk along the embankment of the Northern Dvina.
Throughout the history of Arkhangelsk, the embankment of the Northern Dvina was not only the main street, but also the facade, the face of Arkhangelsk.
At the beginning of each street there was a church that gave it its name — Assumption, Annunciation, Resurrection.
The verticals of temples and bell towers formed a unique silhouette of the city from the river side.
Among the preserved ones are the Trinity Church, the Lutheran Church of St. Catherine, which now houses the Pomeranian State Philharmonic, and the newly rebuilt Assumption Church.
A panorama of the island part of Arkhangelsk opens from the embankment, among which the island of Solombala stands out — the cradle of the Russian fleet.
Walking tour along Chumbarova-Luchinsky Avenue.
The flavor of the time is conveyed by Chumbarov-Luchinsky Avenue — a kind of open-air museum, where traditional Arkhangelsk houses are presented.
In the early 80s of the last century, an idea was born - to gather in one place all the types of houses found in the buildings of the early 20th century, and create a street from them that would remind how wooden Arkhangelsk looked 100 years ago: The houses were low—one or two, rarely three stories high—and their facades stood at the very edge of the sidewalk.
They usually had two entrances, the stairs to the second floor were located in an annex under a smoothly curved roof — this was a local architectural technique that gave the houses a peculiar look.
Return to the hotel.
