Four 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 Mountainwith 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.
Boat trip across the unique internal sea of Solovki archipelago
- Long Lip - to Big Muksalma Island. Sea walk among the islands
of the Long Lip, where the prisoners dealt with breeding fur animals,
will finish by the inspection of Solovki miracle - the bridge-dam
across the strait Iron Gates. Excursion to Sergey's minor-monastery
- the III department of the Camp, where camp's agricultural and
iodine-production services were located.
Late lunch in the hotel. Spare time.
Dinner in the hotel.
The 4th 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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