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unusual facts about Arkhangelsk


Hugh Willoughby

Setting out again despite warnings of the danger he found the entrance to the White Sea and with local help eventually arrived at Arkhangelsk.


Alexandr Innokentevich Tolmatchew

He was appointed head of the USSR's Academy of Sciences Office for the Studies of the Northern Areas in Arkhangelsk in 1939 after serving for a few years as head of its botanical section.

Arkhangelsk Gospel

In early December 1876 the manuscript was brought to Moscow by a peasant from Arkhangelsk regon and was acquired by a Rumyantsev Museum trustee, merchant, old believer S. T. Bolshakov.

Belomorsky Military District

Initially the Belomorsky Military District included the territories of the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and Olonets districts, the islands of the White Sea and part of the islands of the Arctic Ocean.

Boddam, Aberdeenshire

The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations.

Boris Stepanovich Lukoshkov

He died in 1989 in Arkhangelsk, and was buried in a village of Izhma, Primorsky District.

Boundaries between continents

The 1745 atlas published by the Russian Academy of Sciences has the boundary follow the Don beyond Kalach as far as Serafimovich before cutting north towards Arkhangelsk, while other 18th- to 19th-century mapmakers such as John Cary followed Strahlenberg's prescription.

Diocese of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

According to the decision of the Holy Synod of the October 6, 1995 from the Diocese highlighted Syktyvkar diocese, and December 27 – Diocese of Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and then was called and Kholmogory.

Kholmogory and Vazhsky Diocese Council established by decree in 1682, was composed of the north-eastern part of the territory of the Novgorod metropolis, the city of Arkhangelsk and Holmogory with counties, Kevrol, Mezen, Kola, Pustozersk, Vaga, a quarter Vazhsky to award a Ustyanovskimi parishes, the Solovetsky monastery.

Dvinosaurus

Dvinosaurus was first found near the village of Sokolki in Arkhangelsk and named after the Northern Dvina River, which was close to the locality where it was discovered.

Dwina

Northern Dvina River, a river in the Vologda and Arkhangelsk Oblasts, Russia

Ekostrovsky

Ekostrovskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Ekostrovskaya Volost (1866–1868), a volost of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

James Brian Tait

Flying from an airfield at Yagodnik, near Arkhangelsk on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, they attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in the Kaa Fjord.

Kargopol

Kargopol is connected by a paved road with Nyandoma and further east the principal highway in the region, M8 connecting Moscow and Arkhangelsk.

Kargopolsky

Kargopolskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kargopol and the village of Zazhigino in Kargopolsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Lanthaniscus

L. efremovi was originally described on the basis of the holotype PIN 3706/9 from Peza-1 locality, Krasnoshchel' Formation, of Arkhangelsk.

Leshukonsky

Leshukonskoye, a rural locality (a selo) Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

Leshukonsky District

There is an airport in Leshukonskoye, with several weekly flights to Arkhangelsk.

Lovozersky

Lovozerskaya Volost (1920–1927), a volost in Arkhangelsk Governorate and later in Murmansk Governorate of the Russian SFSR

Mezen Airport

There are several weekly flights to Arkhangelsk and several flights per month to the remote locations of Mezensky District — the selos of Koyda, Moseyevo, and Safonovo.

Mezensky

Mezenskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Mezen and five rural localities in Mezensky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Naryan-Mar Airport

It is a mixed civilian-military field, and is the only major facility airfield on the Barents Sea coast between Arkhangelsk and Novaya Zemlya.

Northern Dvina River

From 14th century, Kholmogory was the main trading harbor on the Northern Dvina, but in 17th century it lost this distinction to Arkhangelsk (even though the seat of the Kholmogory and Vaga Eparchy, from 1732 known as Kholmogory and Archangelogorod Eparchy, which had jurisdiction over all Northern Russia including the Solovetsky Monastery, was located in Kholmogory until 1762.

The cities of Arkhangelsk and Vologda, as well as many smaller towns, many of those of significant historical importance such as Veliky Ustyug, Totma, Solvychegodsk, and Kholmogory, are located in the river basin of the Northern Dvina.

Nyandomsky

Nyandomskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Nyandoma and eighteen rural localities in Nyandomsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Okrug

"Administrative okrugs" are such divisions in the cities of Murmansk, Omsk, and Tyumen; "city okrugs" are used in Krasnodar; "municipal okrugs" are the divisions of Nazran; "okrugs" exist in Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, and Novorossiysk; and "territorial okrugs" are the divisions of Arkhangelsk and Lipetsk.

Onega Bay

Administratively, the coast and the islands are shared between Kemsky and Belomorsky Districts of the Republic of Karelia, and Onezhsky, Primorsky, and Solovetsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

Pechengsky

Pechengskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Pechengskaya Volost (1866–1868, 1871–1921), a volost of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Port of Arkhangelsk

Originate from Arkhangelsk regular passenger line to Murmansk, Dixon, Onega, Mezen, Kandalaksha and Novaya Zemlya.

Schieder commission

This was intended as only a first step towards establishing the so-called A-A line from Arkhangelsk to Astrakhan (both located in Russia) as Germany's new eastern border.

Shenkursky

Shenkurskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Shenkursk in Shenkursky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Solvychegodsky

Solvychegodsky District, a former district of Northern Dvina Governorate (1924–1929) and Arkhangelsk Oblast (1938–1958) in the Russian SFSR

Solvychegodskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Solvychegodsk and ninety-three rural localities in Kotlassky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Teribersky

Teriberskaya Volost (1912–1927), an administrative division of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire, and later of Murmansk Governorate of the Russian SFSR

Voronyinsky

Voronyinskaya Volost (1866–1868), a volost of Kemsky Uyezd, Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Voronyinskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd, Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

White Sea – Baltic Canal

For example, in the summer of 2007, a large piece of equipment for Rosneft's Siberian Vankor Oil Field was delivered by the Amur-1516 from Dzerzhinsk on the Oka River, via the Volga–Baltic Waterway and the White Sea Canal to Arkhangelsk, and then from there by the ocean-going SA-15 class Arctic cargo ship Kapitan Danilkin to Dudinka on the River Yenisei.

Yarenga

Yarenga River, a river in the Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia


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