Valaam is an archipelago in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, lying within the Russian Federation's Republic of Karelia. the total area of its more than 50 islands is 36 square km. The largest island is also called Valaam. It is most known as the site of the Valaam Monastery, but also for its natural beauty. An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. ... Map of Scandinavia Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ладожское озеро, Finnish: Laatokka) is the largest lake in Europe, located in Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia (since WWII), near the border to Finland. ... For other uses of Karelia, see Karelia (disambiguation). ... The Valaam Monastery, or Valamo Monastery is the Orthodox monastery in Karelia, which has been a part of territory contended between Soviet Union and Finland. ...
In the 12th century the islands were a part of the Novgorod Republic. In the 17th cenrury they were captured by Sweden, in the beginning of 18th cenrury became a part of the Russian Empire. In 1918 they were captured by Finland, but in 1940 were returned to the USSR. The Novgorod Feudal Republic (Новгородская феодальная республика in Russian, or Novgorodskaya feodalnaya respublika) was a feudal state in the Northwest of todays Russia between the 12th and 15th century. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...
Valaam is the largest and finest island of the lake Ladoga.
The members of "Valaam" graduated from the Glinka choir college and the Rimsky-Korsakov music high-school in St-Petersburg as conductors and vocalists...
ValaamArchipelago is one of the most interesting cultural, historical and nature attractions in the North of Russia.
At the beginning of the 20th century the Valaam Monastery became on of the wealthiest Russian Monasteries, comprising a kind of a small state with 13 smaller monasteries under control.
Island to the south of Valaam, separated by a narrow canal.
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