The Solovetsky Islands (Russian: Солове́цкие острова́), also known as Solovki, are a group of islands in the White Sea in the Onega Bay in the Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia. Area—347 km². Solovki is located in the Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, Russia. ... Barents Sea, the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. ... Onega Bay (Russian: ) is a bay of the White Sea in northwestern Russia, southwest of Arkhangelsk. ... Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... -1...

This group of islands consists of six islands (most notable are Solovetsky, Anzersky, Bolshoy Muksalma, and Maly Muksalma). The shores of the islands are very indented. They are formed with granites and gneiss. The relief of the islands is hilly (the highest point is 107 m). Most of the Solovetsky Islands are covered with Scots Pine and Norway Spruce forests, which are partially swampy. There are numerous lakes on the islands, which are interconnected with canals. In the 15th century, one of the biggest monasteries—the Solovetsky Monastery—was founded on the Solovetsky Islands, attracting many tourists. Bolshoy Muksalma (Большая Муксалма in russian) - one of the Solovetsky Islands is situated to the east from the Bolshoy Solovetsky and connected with it by ancient dam. ... Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... Gneiss Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of rock formed by high grade regional metamorphic processes from preexisting formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks. ... In the art of sculpture, a relief is an artwork where a modelled form projects out of a flat background. ... Binomial name Pinus sylvestris L. The Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris; family Pinaceae) is a common tree ranging from Great Britain and Spain east to eastern Siberia and the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as Lapland. ... Binomial name Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. ... A freshwater swamp This article is about the wetland type (a landform). ... The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, France. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... The Tikse monastery in Ladakh, India A monastery is the habitation of monks, derived from the Greek word for a hermits cell. ... Solovetsky Monastery Solovetsky Monastery (Соловецкий монастырь in Russian), a monastery on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. ...

Shortly after the Russian Revolution, the monastery was turned into the Solovki Special Purpose Camp, a "seed" of Gulag, and then into a prison. Thousands of 'counter-revolutionary elements' died on the island, especially in the 1920s. The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ... Solovetsky Monastery in 1915. ... Gulag (Russian: ГУЛАГ (help· info)) is an acronym for Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies of the NKVD. Anne Applebaum, in her book Gulag: A History, explains: Literally, the word GULAG is an acronym, meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or...

In 1974, the Solovetsky Islands became a historical and architectural museum and a natural reserve of the USSR. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... A nature reserve (natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve) is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ...

Today, these islands are some of the most interesting places in the north of Russia, and attract many tourists. One can get to the islands either by ship from Kem or by plane from Arkhangelsk. View of Kem in 1911. ... The city of Arkhangelsk (Архангельск, formerly in English Archangel) lies on the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the far north of European Russia, at 64°32′N 40°32′E. It is the capital of the Arkhangelsk Oblast and was the chief sea port of...