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Arkhangelsk is the capital and largest city of Arkhangelsk Oblast in the Russian North, spread for more than 40 kilometers along both banks of the Northern Dvina and the islands of its delta, close to the White Sea. It had about 301,000 people at the 2021 census.
The town grew up in the late 16th century beside the Monastery of the Archangel Michael, which gave it its name. For more than a century it was the chief seaport of Russia, and in the 17th century over half of the country's foreign trade passed through its stone trading yards. Peter the Great visited three times, and ships for his new navy were built at Solombala, but the port lost its lead after Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703.
Today the long Dvina embankment is the favorite place for walks, lined with monuments, museums and a maritime museum. Visitors stroll the pedestrian Chumbarovka, hear organ music in an old Lutheran church and visit the Novodvinsk Fortress built by Peter the Great.
The Northern Dvina Embankment is one of the main streets of Arkhangelsk, running for over 9 kilometers along the right bank of the river and wrapping around the whole center. It is the favorite place for walks, city festivals and Navy Day, and in June it hosts a festival of street theater.
The Monument to Peter the Great in Arkhangelsk was unveiled in 1914 on a model by Mark Antokolsky, and it became famous as the image on the Russian 500-ruble banknote. The bronze tsar stands 2.5 meters tall, and his visits to Arkhangelsk in 1693, 1694 and 1702 are carved on the pedestal.
The Lomonosov Monument in Arkhangelsk is the first monument to the great scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, made by Ivan Martos in 1829 with money raised across Russia and unveiled in 1832. In bronze, a winged genius hands a lyre to Lomonosov, who stands in a Roman toga on a half globe.
The Northern Maritime Museum on the Dvina embankment in Arkhangelsk was set up in the 1970s by the Northern Shipping Company and became a state museum in 1993. Its more than 21,000 items tell of a thousand years of northern seafaring, the first seaport of Russia and Arctic exploration.
The Gostiny Dvor in Arkhangelsk is a fortified stone trading yard built in 1668-1684 on Cape Pur-Navolok, when over half of the foreign trade of Russia passed through the town. A wall and its north tower survive, it is the oldest building in the city, and it has housed the local museum since 1981.
Chumbarova-Luchinskogo Prospekt, known locally as the Chumbarovka, is a street in the center of Arkhangelsk whose section between Ioanna Kronshtadtskogo and Karla Libknekhta streets is closed to cars. It was named in 1921 after the poet and revolutionary Fyodor Chumbarov-Luchinsky.
Saint Catherine's Church was built in stone in 1768 by the Lutheran parish of the foreign merchants, many of them German, who lived in the port. Closed after the revolution and used for a time as a sports hall, it is now the chamber hall of the Pomor Philharmonic, with a full-height organ.
Solombala is a historic district of Arkhangelsk on islands in the Northern Dvina delta, joined to the center by the Kuznechevsky Bridge and home to about 32,000 people. Legend says its name comes from a ball given by Peter the Great to celebrate the building of the first ships for the Russian navy.
The Arkhangelsk Museum of Fine Arts was founded on 29 August 1960 and opened to visitors in 1966, and in 1994 it became part of the museum group Artistic Culture of the Russian North. Its collection of more than 30,000 works covers Russian art from the 14th century to the present day.
The Lomonosov Drama Theatre in Arkhangelsk plays in a building raised in 1929-1931 to a constructivist design led by Ilya Golosov, later rebuilt more than once. Its permanent company was formed in 1932 and opened with Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, and it carries the name of Lomonosov.
The Dormition Church stands on the Northern Dvina embankment in Arkhangelsk, where a wooden church was built in 1626 and Peter the Great attended a service in 1694. Its stone church of the 1740s, whose tall bell tower served as a lighthouse, was torn down in the 1930s and rebuilt in the 2000s.
The Novodvinsk Fortress stands in the Northern Dvina delta about 20 kilometers north of central Arkhangelsk, within the city limits. It was founded in 1701 on the orders of Peter the Great to guard the sea approach to the port from the Swedes, to a design by the engineer Georg Ernst Rese.
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