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	Travel russia. Cities of Russia. Karelia Region: Kizhi
		In the 16th century, Kizhi was the administrative centre of the large Zaonezhye region, with numerous settlements on islands and on the mainland.
		The heart of the Kizhi ensemble is the Church of the Transfiguration, the Church of the Intercession, and a belfry located between them.
		Zosima was born in the village of Tolvuya, close to Kizhi, and the residents of Kizhi revered their famous fellow countryman.
	traveltorussia.biz /cities/karelia/highlights/kizhi.html (564 words)

	Karelia. Tourism portal \| Regions of Karelia
		Lopskii and Zaonezhskiy pogosts were situated here, Kondopoga belonged to Kizhi pogost, but in the beginning of XVIII century the pogost was divided.
		Kondopoga was at the border of Kizhi and Shuja pogosts.
		Kizhi pogost owned the northern part of the village, and the other lands were considered to be common for both pogosts.
	www.ticrk.ru /en/regions/region_8071.html (1737 words)

	Wood Interest Group Papers
		Kizhi Pogost is an ensemble of log structures located on an island in an archipelago in Lake Onega in northern Karelia in the Russian Federation.
		Within two years the first three Russian sites, Kizhi Pogost among them, were inscribed on the World Heritage List and the door was opened wider for the involvement of the international conservation community to support Russian conservers in the conservation of heritage resources of international significance.
		In June 1995 the Russian Ministry of Culture endorsed the concept for the long-term conservation of the structures at Kizhi Pogost.
	www.icomos.org /icomosca/wood/papers/kizhi-c.html.en (2318 words)

	Travel Russia: isle Kizhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By the 15th-16th centuries the Kizhi pogost, a settlement with a church and a cemetery, had already been the center of a large community comprising several neighbouring villages.
		Kizhi is a unique ensemble of Russian wooden architecture, where every structure testifies to the inspired work of the craftsmen of the 18th and 19th century.
		The many-tiered, twenty-two-domed Church of the Transfiguration, the Church of the Intercession, similar to it in style, though smaller in size, and the tent-roofed belfry perfectly harmonize with the austere northern scenery.
	www.foreigndocuments.com /travelrussia/kizhi.html (161 words)

	Daria and Bob's Trip to Kizhi
		Kizhi is home to a museum of wooden architecture dating back over 300 years.
		The centerpiece of the museum is the Church of the Transfiguration, a Russian Orthodox cathedral constructed on Kizhi Island in 1714.
		The Kizhi Museum includes more than 80 examples of Russian wooden architecture, but our focus is on Kizhi Pogost, the structures of the monastery native to the island.
	www.evl.uic.edu /rlk/kizhi (855 words)

	Kizhi at AllExperts
		Kizhi () is an island on Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia (Medvezhye District), Russia with a beautiful ensemble of wooden churches, chapels and houses.
		Kizhi pogost, as the whole area is known in Russian, is an old settlement which united more than 100 villages in the 16th century.
		The jewel of its architecture is the 22-domed Transfiguration church (1722), with a fine baroque iconostasis.
	en.allexperts.com /e/k/ki/kizhi.htm (276 words)

	Kizhi Travel Tips - Kizhi Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Early mention of the Kizhi settlements are found in chronicles from the 14th and 15th century.
		In 1968 the chapel was measured by A.V.Opolovnikov and transferred to the island of Kizhi to be restored by his design on the Naryina Hill not far from the village of Yamka (Olkhino).
		Icons from the churches and chapels of the Kizhi island and its neighbourhood are exhibited in the refectory
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Russia/Respublika_Kareliya/Kizhi-616917/General_Tips-Kizhi-BR-1.html (1272 words)

	Kizhi Island: Russia's Peasant Heritage
		Situated in the north-west region of Lake Onega is Kizhi Island, home to an outdoor museum of fascinating edifices of northern wooden architecture.
		Kizhi has full time bell ringers who researched and now perform traditional methods of chiming.
		Kizhi Pogost was declared to be a state reserve in 1945.
	www.offbeattravel.com /kizhi-island.html (738 words)

	It is some rest! Маршруты путешествий...
		On the Onega shore stand the towns of Petrozavodsk, Kondopoga, etc. The "Kizhi Museum" is on a small island.
		In olden times on a small woodless and almost barren isle of Kizhi on Lake Onega there was a big settlement which was named "The Spassky Kizhsky Pogost" in the handwritten books of the city of Novgorod.
		The word was used to denote not only a rather large administrative and territorial unit comprising several minor units ("volosty") with many big and small villages including tiny setterments ("vystavky" and "potchinky") on the neighbouring islands but also the most densely populated place being the main administrative center.
	home.onego.ru /~sham/eng/t3_e.html (761 words)

	Kizhi Guesthouses \| Kizhi \| Kizhi necklace
		In 2 km from the house a chapel of the 18th century is situated.
		Kizhi Museum of Wooden Architecture, historical churches and chapels.
		What we see first on Kizhi is the world-famous Kizhi Pogost - ensemble of a multi-domed Church of the Transfiguration, Church of the intercession and a Belfry in between.
	www.infohub.com /Lodgings/lodging_pages/1107.html (743 words)

	Karelia. Tourism portal \| Kizhi
		The most remarkable monument of ancient wooden architecture is Kizhi ensemble – a group of small islands in the skerries of the southern part of Zaonezhye region, on one of which the pogost of Kizhi (i.e.
		Beginning with the sixteenth century, Kizhi was the administrative center of a large region (pogost) with a total population of 12.000.
		In 1714 the 22-domed Church of the Transfiguration was built with the funds donated by parishioners.
	ticrk.ru /en/gallery.php?docId=8300 (505 words)

	Karelia. Tourism portal \| Historical & cultural heritage
		Karelia is one of the most well-known russian territories in international tourism, for it has a lot of unique architectural, cultural and historical objects on Kizhi and Valaam islands and on Solovetskie Islands, situated not far from the administrative borders of Karelia and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
		The largest in Russia architectural ensemble of wooden architecture - famous Kizhi pogost - is an outstanding work of Russian craftsmen.
		These 3 islands - Valaam, Kizhi and Solovki, are not only the main cultural sights of Karelia, but also phenomena of world significance.
	ticrk.ru /en/folder_8090.html (342 words)

	Russia - Wooden Churches in Kizhi
		These unusual constructions, in which carpenters created a bold visionary architecture, perpetuate an ancient model of parish space and are in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
		On the eastern coast of Lake Onega (north east of Lake Ladoga) you are already in Karelia, famous for its stern and magnificent northern beauty.
		Later Kizhi became an ecclesiastical center, and in the 18th century, to commemorate the victory over the Swedes, the wooden Church of the Transfiguration, and of the Protecting Veil of the Most Holy Mother of God were built here.
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-RussiaKizhi.htm (413 words)

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		For one thing, the number of domes often matches the number of altars in the church as in the 19 altars and 19 domes of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev in the 18th century.
		The remaining 16 domes honored Elija and Moses and the 14 patronal feasts of the Kizhi Pogost pictured in the iconostasis.
		The total number of domes on the two cathedrals and the bell tower of the Kizhi Pogost was 33, probably symblising Christ's 33 years on earth.
	vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw /hlee/course/th9_1000/board/view3.asp?id=215 (1412 words)

	Layla-tour: Tours and excursions of Kareliya, museums, sights. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boat and walking eco trips can be arranged to explore Kizhi nature: botanical, geological and ornithological, with a duration of 4 hours to 2 days.
		Savvaty was later respected as the pioneer on the Islands, but it was not him who established the monastery.
		In 1436, Zosima, a son of rich parents lived on the shore of the Lake Onego (near Kizhi).
	trip-to-moscow.com /main.php?links=karelia/sightseeing.htm (2682 words)

	Russia Region In - Karelia
		The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (1714) is part of the Wooden Architecture Museum on the Island of Kizhi and is one of four structures that form the Kizhsky pogost ensemble.
		It is said that the twenty-two onion domes of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior represent the larger administrative and territorial units that comprised the Kizhsky pogost and that each locale contributed to the construction of the church.
		The Kizhsky Pogost was then a large administrative and territorial unit comprising several minor units ("volosty") with many big and small villages including tiny settlements ("vystavky" and "potchinky") on the neighboring islands as well as the more densely populated place which was the main administrative center.
	members.aol.com /imershein/Page6g.html (4319 words)

	Kizhi Island
		Kizhi, an island in Onega Lake in Karelia.
		Kizhi island plays a special role among the others.
		The most striking monument of wooden architecture represent the manydomed temples of Kizhi Pogost: the Preobrazhenskaya (Transfiguration) Church with 22 domes erected in 1714, and the Pokrovskaya (Protection of the Virgin) Church with 9 domes built in 1764.
	www.russkaya-storona.ru /services/russia/Kizhi (68 words)

	Kizhi - Russia Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is situated on one of 1650 islands of Lake Onega in 68 km from Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia.
		The Kizhi museum is one of the largest museums of the peasants’ culture of the Russian North.
		In 1993 the Kizhi Open-Air Museum was enlisted into the State Collection of the most valuable objects of the cultural heritage of the peoples living in the Russian Federation.
	kizhi.by.ru (407 words)

	Russia Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Kizhi is a not-to-be-missed pilgrimage site for anyone touched by the magic of old Russian architecture.
		The little Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus, constructed in the 14th century at Murom monastery, may be the oldest wooden building in Russia.
		An old pagan ritual site, Kizhi - one of at least 1600 islands in Lake Onega - made a natural 'parish' for 12th-century Russian colonists.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/russia?poi=104391 (253 words)

	ST.PETERSBURG – VOLOGDA – KARGOPOL – PETROZAVODSK – KIZHI – SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS – PETROZAVODSK – ...
		Voyage to the Island of Kizhi (1h15min by hydrofoil).
		The Pogost in the village of Lyadiny is a unique architectural ensemble.
		In the center of the village are 2 wooden 18th century churches and the Belfry.
	eng.solovki.ru /page3.htm (4428 words)

	English Russia » Wooden churches in Kizhi built without nails
		Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, is located approximately 300 km from St. Petersburg on the most westerly bay of Lake Onega, the second biggest in Europe after Lake Ladoga.
		68 km from Petrozavodsk lies the island of Kizhi, not the biggest, but the most famous of all the 1,650 islands in Lake Onega.
		On the pic: Church of the Transfiguration, Kizhi, built of wood without using nails.
	englishrussia.com /?p=183 (318 words)

	Services. Karelia
		Monuments and museum collections consist of: 70 monuments of traditional folk architecture including the ensemble of the Kizhi Pogost.
		The area of the island is about 10,000 ha of the territory -a picturesque lake-shore landscape with signs of centuries-long land use.
		In 1990 the architectural ensemble of the Kizhi Pogost and the surrounding architectural and landscape environment within the limits of the protected area of the museum was included into the World Heritage List of UNESCO;
	www.davs.ru /english/services/karelia (958 words)

	North-West Travel Bureau - Snowmobile safari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It includes a number of monuments famous in the north and related to the worshipping of the cult of stone and ancestors.
		These monuments are mainly chapels that were built in Kizhi villages, known since the XVI century.
		The chapels built within XVIII - XIX centuries are often called the chapels of the "Kizhi Necklace", meaning that they encircle the Kizhi Pogost ensemble like a precious necklace.
	www.nwtb.ru /eng/combine_2.html (763 words)

	Karelian Holidays \| package tours
		During the tour you will learn a great deal about the preserved and lost monuments of history and architecture of Petrozavodsk, those outstanding people, whose life was connected with Petrozavodsk and Zaonezhje, and the city and folk culture of the beginning of the XXth century.
		Tour of the open-air Kizhi museum-preserve with the visit to the Intercession Church and ethnographical exhibitions.
		You will be amazed by the grandeur of the church complex of the Kizhi Pogost including a 22-dome Transfiguration Church, a 9-dome Intercession Church and the bell tower.
	www.karelianholidays.ru /en/tours.php?itemId=4441 (734 words)

	PETERSBURG — PETROZAVODSK — KIZHI — VALAAM — KIVACH — WHITE SEA-BALTIC CANAL — KEM — SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS ...
		In the noon, we depart by hydrofoil to one of the most magnificent and famous cultural attractions of Russia — Kizhi Museum of wooden architecture.
		The unique ensemble of Kizhi displays churches and chapels of the 14–19th centuries and belongs to UNESCO's World Heritage List.
		Around boat voyage from Petrozavodsk to Kizhi island, from Sortavala to Valaam island, from Kem to Solovki islands.
	eng.solovki.ru /page2.htm (3424 words)

	Nordic Travel. Russian Tours :: Karelia
		The World Heritage sight of Kizhi, Russian rural life and beautiful nature.
		Kizhi Pogost, Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands.
		Tour to the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, where the ancient Monastery was founded in the 15th Century.
	nordictravel.ru /page/tours.html (126 words)

	Nordic Travel. Karelia :: Day Trips
		Three-hour stay on the Island includes excursion to the old Pogost - Churches of the Transfiguration (1714) and Intercession (1764), acquaintance with the history and traditions of the people who created the extraordinary wooden masterpieces.
		Very few people have ever experienced the beauty of Kizhi Churches in winter - do not miss the chance.
		On the way back we visit the town of Kondopoga, and the Church of Assumption (1774; 42 meters high), which is even taller than the Church of the Transfiguration on Kizhi (37 meters).
	nordictravel.ru /page/daytrips.html (614 words)

	Cinderella Travel Corp. - We are the number one provider of travel services to Russia and other CIS countries.
		Kizhi - is an island in the Onega lake, where a set of wooden constructions has been preserved from the Kizhski pogost.
		The route from Novgorod to Belomorie has passed through this lake since the fourteenth century.
		The villages, situated on numerous islands, were united by an administrative centre (Spassko-Kizhskyi pogost) which was also situated on the island and included more than 100 villages in the 16th century.
	www.cinderellatravel.com /russ4/russia/cruises/mowstpet/gallery (706 words)

	Kizhi Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Alongside the active work focused on the collection, restoration, enlightenment and tourism, the priority activity of the museum at present is the research into the history, culture and nature heritage and its exploitation in the context of the development of this region.
		The Kizhi Museum is responsible for the preservation and development of the historic, cultural and nature complex comprising the world famous Kizhi Pogost, historic landscapes and monuments situated on Kizhi Island, near-by Lake Onega islands and part of the mainland coastline within the former Kizhi Volost (Community) of the Olonets Province.
		The bog is situated in the northern part of Kizhi Island.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Russia/Respublika_Kareliya/Kizhi-616917/Things_To_Do-Kizhi-R-2.html (456 words)

	A Photo a Day » Wooden Church, Kizhi Pogost
		This is a picture I took in Kizhi Pogost (Karelia, Russia) back in 1980.
		Kizhi Pogost is a museum village displaying the art of Russian wood archtiecture and was recognised as a “Unesco’s World Heritage Site” in 1990.
		All the building, including this 22-towered church, were constructed without the use of a single nail!
	www.travelphoto.net /a-photo-a-day/wordpress/2004/11/03/wooden-church-kizhi-pogost (216 words)

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