For incoming studentsWe welcome you to Arkhangelsk!
Do you want to have unforgettable research or professional stay as well as enjoy impressions, diverse colors of nature and original culture of the land?
If so, you should come to the Arkhangelsk!
Arkhangelsk is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk region. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the far north of European Russia. City districts spread for over 40 kilometers along the banks of the river and numerous islands of its delta. The city is located at the very end of the 1,133 km long railroad, connecting it to Moscow via Vologda and Yaroslavl.
The Arkhangelsk Region is an original ‘store-room’ of ancient Russian culture and of oldest traditions of spiritual life of the Pomors.
History. There are good grounds to believe that the first settlers in the North, primordial hunters and fishermen, came here 14 thousand years ago. The evidence of the fact is more than 800 archeological finds from Paleolithic to Middle Ages, material evidence of the settlements of legendary and mysterious Chud and Lope tribes along the Vaga, Pinega, Mezen rivers and on the Lake Lache.
In the 8th century the first groups of Slavs from Rostov-Suzdal and Novgorod areas came to the North. They brought land-cultivating, written language, Christianity with them. From here the Slavs-farmers went to sea and found sea routes to Scandinavia and Siberia; here an original culture of the Pomors formed and it was here that the Russian fleet was destined to be born and the famous ‘three-colored’ flag to be hoisted.
Quite a special place in developing the area belongs to Russian Orthodox escetics and monasteries. In the 12th-15th centuries there already appeared first cloisters, by the 17th century there had been about 60 monasteries which had become cultural centres and safeguards of the northern borders of the Russian State. The monasteries actively used the latest achievements in engineering, promoted ancient Russian arts. Hundreds of talented icon painters, golden-stitch embroiderers, scribes, jewelers, smiths worked in the monastery workshops.
In the 18th century when the centre of external economic activities in Russia moved to the Baltic region the tempo of social and economic development of the Arkhangelsk North reduced; in the process of becoming a Russian province, nevertheless, the region preserved its original color, traditions and unique historical and cultural heritage of the Russian northerners.
Nowadays hundreds of thousands people annually come to the Arkhangelsk Region both for business dealing and rest and joy.
Geography and population. The Arkhangelsk Region belongs to the largest administrative entities in Russia; situated in latitude between the 60.5 and 70 degrees North it is part of the Northern economic area. From north to south the Region crosses three climatic zones – arctic, sub-arctic and moderate, the coastal line of 3000 km is washed by the White, Barents and Kara Arctic Seas. Characteristic for the Region is a very dense and full-flowing network of rivers and numerous lakes, there are many mineral water deposits of medicinal value, picturesque and variable landscapes of the northern nature which has survived in its primordial state.The Region area is 587 thousand square km. By January 1, 2002, the population was 1.4 million people. The national structure of the Arkhangelsk Region population is comparatively homogeneous (Russians make 92 % of the population).
Time zones. The Arkhangelsk Region has got the so called ‘Moscow time’; it is 3 hours ahead of the Greenwich time (GTM+3). In summer, as the whole of Europe, the Arkhangelsk Region has a summer time (GTM+4).
Climate. Three climatic zones are observed in the territory of the Arkhangelsk Region – the arctic (the northern island of the Novaya Zemlya and Franz Joseph Land), sub-arctic (the Nenets Autonomous District, the Kolguyev and Vaigach Islands) and moderate ( the rest of the Arkhangelsk Region territory). Characteristic for the Region are moderately cold and long winter with much snow, cloudless spring, moderately warm summer, cloudy and rainy autumn. Annual precipitation increases from north to south: in average 27 % of precipitation is snow, 55 % is rain, and 12% is snow and rain.
White Nights Land. It is no mere chance that the Arkhangelsk Region is called the White Nights Land. From the middle of May and almost to the end of July to the north of Polar Circle the sun never disappears behind the horizon; to the south of Polar Circle days are much longer than nights, the latter resembling dawns. In winter the situation is vice versa - the territory to the north of Polar Circle sinks into darkness of a Polar night, in the south the sun rises but very low, and day lasts only 5 hours.
How to get Arkhangelsk.
By air.
The Air Companies «Aeroflot» and «Aeroflot – Nord» make direct flights between Arkhangelsk and Moscow (the flight lasts for 1 hour 40 min.) and Saint-Petersburg (1 hour 40 min.) as well as to others cities. On the official web-sites (www.aeroflot.ru and www.aeroflot-nord.ru) information about flights, timetable, prices and on-line tickets in English is available.
By train.
Direct railway lines connect Arkhangelsk with Moscow (the trip lasts 21 hour, the route length is 1134 km) and Saint-Petersburg (23 hours, 1126 km). To get to know timetable and to buy tickets on-line? It is easy! Just check the web-site of Russian Railways www.rzd.ru.
More information about Arkhangelsk and Arkhanglsk region could be found www.pomorland.info.
See you in Arkhangelsk!
Local Committee of Arkhangelsk
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