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Three days on Solovki Islands

The 1st day


Meeting with the guide at the pier or at the airport.
Transfer by bus to the hotel, check-in and lunch in the hotel.
Walking tour around the monastery, excursion "History and architecture of the Solovki monastery", visit of the churches and the monuments included to "The List of the world heritage of UNESCO". Excursion "Reference and conclusion on Solovki", attendance of the first in USSR complex historical exposition of the Solovki State Museum Reserve devoted to GULAG system. Dinner in the hotel.


The 2nd day

Breakfast in the hotel. Bus excursion "The Monuments of the Solovki minor-monasteries: Savatievo, Isakovo, Sekirnaya Mountain". Cloister monastery on Sekirnaya Mountain with the Assumption Church and the highest lighthouse of the White Sea. During camp times SLON's IV department - penalty isolator - was located there. Under the northwestern slope the Memorable cross to killed prisoners was erected by patriarch Aleksey II in 1992. In Savatievo - the place of the first settling of Savatii and Herman - political prisoners (anarchists, socialists, Mensheviks) of the camp were contained. In 1923 Savatievo became the first place of mass shooting in the camp, and up to 1937 - the largest camp department. Excursion will be finished by the visit of the former Isakovo minor-monastery - the center of timber cuttings in SLON, and the place, where holy Herman lived and worked according to the legend. In 1925-1928 the imprisoned Catholics accomplished their services in the Herman's Chapel.
Picnic by campfire on the shore of a lake or late lunch in the restaurant. Spare time.
Dinner in the hotel.

The 3rd day

Breakfast in the hotel. Check-out time. 3 hour sea tour to the Big Zayatsky Island. Visiting of the first in Russia stone harbor of XVI century, St. Andrei's Church erected in 1702 by Peter I. The history of ancient stone labyrinths of III-II millennium B.C. and archeological researches, conducted by prisoners; of female isolator and the penalty missions, which have become the prototype of the Hitler's "camps of destruction".
Lunch in the hotel.
Transfer by bus to the airport or to the pier. Departure from Solovki.


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