Description:
Solovki and the Solovetsky Monastery – are the pearls of Russian North. The Solovetsky archipelago is situated in the White sea in the entryway to Onega Bay. The main sights of Solovki are: the Spasso-Preobrazhensky Monastery founded by Zosima and Savvatiy the monks of the Valaamsky Monastery in Karelia in 1429, the Uspensky (Assumption) and the Trinity Monasteries, the Churches of Annunciation and of St. Herman, and the sketes of St. Savvatiy and St. Isaac at Sekirnaya hill, Golgofo-Raspyatsky (Calvary-Crucifixion) skete on Anzersky Island.