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	Solovetsky islands
		Solovki were also known to by the local Northern tribes of the Saams, who used islands for their ancient burial grounds, and the Pomors who hunted and fished on the islands' shores.
		Eventually, the Solovki Monastery strengthened its positions, and by the middle of the 16th century it became an important religious and political center of Russia.
		One of the most interesting events in the Solovki's history is the infamous Solovetsky Revolt (1668-1676), which is also regarded as the greatest event in the history of Russian schism.
	eng.solovki.ru (2389 words)

	Soviet Gulags - Johnson's Russia List 4-8-03
		Solovki was where the structures and basic tenets of the labor-camp system began to take shape.
		It was at Solovki, for example, that a system was put in place of feeding prisoners according to their work output (thereby insuring that the weak died of hunger and exposure, while the strong helped to build the industrial infrastructure of the state).
		It was at Solovki that guards devised such tortures as crippling a man by forcing him to sit on a pole for eighteen hours straight or killing him by throwing him down a long outdoor stairway.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7134-12.cfm (3831 words)

	Solovki
		Solovki is a symbol of the new system's attitude to religion and tradition.
		The only known iconographic record from the time of the camp's existence is the propaganda film "Solovki", made in the Twenties for the purposes of promoting the "new penitential policy of the Soviet State".
		Solovki served the NKVD as a model for developing and improving horrible practices soon to become a rule regulating the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people forced to create the "industrial miracles" of the Bolsheviks all around Russia.
	www.osa.ceu.hu /gulag/b.htm (405 words)

	Belomorsk.Karelia.Ru/Eng/ - Solovetsk islands
		The Solovki Archipelago is situated in the Onego gulf of the White Sea, 150 km from the Arctic Circle.
		The treasures of the monastery grew larger: the butter made on Solovki was estimated on the market as high as that made in Finland or Vologda; the famous Solovki herring was delivered to the Czar; the products made of sea animals' skins were highly estimated even on the international exhibitions.
		Thousands of pilgrims from every part of the country came to Solovki annually to see one of the mostly worshipped monasteries with their own eyes, to pay deference to famous Russian saints, to keep the image of the harmony of man and nature in their souls for a long time.
	belomorsk.karelia.ru /eng/solovki (2207 words)

	Solovki -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Solovki is located in the (Click link for more info and facts about Solovetsky Islands) Solovetsky Islands, (A large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia) White Sea, (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia.
		The (A word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name) acronym of the camp name is a sullen word play for those who speak (A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian: slon means "elephant".
		The Orthodox Church reestablished the monastery in 1992, and in 1992 the monastery complex was included into (An agency of the United Nations that promotes education and communication and the arts) UNESCO's World Heritage List.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/solovki.htm (224 words)

	Hotel "Solovki" on Solovki Island
		By the seventeenth century, Solovki had become one of the biggest monasteries in the world, with 300 monks and 600 workers who were mostly involved in salt production.
		One of the most interesting events in the Solovki's history is the famous Solovetsky Revolt (1668-1676), which is also regarded as the greatest event in the history of Russian schism.
		century Solovki become the place of exile of many notable political and religious figures, but most tragic events were written in the history of Solovki during Soviet times, in the beginning of the twentieth century.
	www.imperialtravel.net /solovki.shtml (1418 words)

	SOLOVKI - Holy Isles of Monks and Martyrs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The latter was for 18 years abbot of Solovki, and even had he not become patriarch, his extraordinary accomplishments in terms of both the physical and the spiritual development of the monastery, already established his renown.
		In 1546, he was elevated to the rank of abbot of the Monastery of Solovki and began to apply all his efforts to raise the spiritual significance of the monastery and its founders, Saints Zosima and Sabbatius.
		At Solovki, while he fashioned nets at the Filiminov Fishery, or functioned as forester or guard at the Philipov Hermitage, he enjoyed authority among the imprisoned clergy, and was chosen to be the senior hierarch.
	www.roca.org /oa/163-164/163d.htm (4283 words)

	Fast Forward Europe: A TIME Special Issue
		Medieval chroniclers called the Solovki archipelago "the islands on the edge of the world." Centuries later, its grim past provided Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with the title for a book that was to undermine the Soviet state: The Gulag Archipelago.
		Founded in the 15th century by two ascetic monks who similarly sought to escape the bustle of the mainland, Solovki's monastery had by the end of the 16th century become one of the richest and most powerful of northern Russia.
		Solovki's victims included some of the country's finest minds, such as Pavel Florensky, a theologian and polymath whose interests ranged from mathematics to folklore, and such fantastical figures as Innokenty Kozhevnikov, a disgraced Red Army commander who went insane and declared himself emperor Innokenty I, for which he was tortured and shot.
	www.time.com /time/europe/specials/ff/walkup/solovki.html (930 words)

	World Heritage Review #12
		The landscape of Solovki retains some remarkably full and varied testimony relative to the traditional monastic culture of Russia before the twentieth century and its influence on the country's development.
		This means that the inhabitants need to be informed and educated, and that favourable conditions should be created leading to their involvement in the preservation of the natural and cultural heritage of Solovki and in its vital activities.
		Solovki is a complex formation where natural and cultural values interact.
	whc.unesco.org /whreview/article6.html (1964 words)

	Solovki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solovki is a shortened name for the Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, Russia.
		Historically it has been a location of the famous Russian Orthodox Solovetsky Monastery complex, which repelled foreign attacks during the Time of Troubles, the Crimean War, and the Russian Civil War.
		By Lenin's decree, the holy buildings were turned into Solovetsky Lager' Osobogo Naznachenia (SLON), Solovki Special Purpose Camp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solovki (204 words)

	Art Gallery : Artwork
		Shrouded in the most beautiful of ancient legends, Solovetsky islands (also called Solovki) still maintains its enchantment and is justly considered the pearl of the Russian North.
		Since the middle of the 19th century Solovki became the place of exile of many notable political and religious figures, but most tragic events were written in the history of Solovetsky islands during Soviet times, in the beginning of the twentieth century.
		In 1960s visitors were finally allowed to Solovki, but the entire White Sea was special restricted travel zone even for Russians, not to mention foreigners.
	www.gallery-worldwide.com /cmItem.jsp?id=3544 (2273 words)

	CDI Russia Weekly #204 - Tourism, Solovki Gulag
		Given Solovki's location, 150 kilometers below the Arctic Circle, that meant the soaking wet prisoners were forced to stand outside in temperatures that were many degrees below freezing.
		After the Solovki Gulag was closed in 1939, visitors were eventually allowed to return to the islands.
		That gives every family a connection to the long-dead prisoners on Solovki who etched their names in a staircase.
	www.cdi.org /russia/204-8.cfm (879 words)

	Untitled Document
		Solovki is a fascinating mix of paganism and orthodox Christianity, a gulag camp, and, now, a Center for Contemporary Art.
		In addition to the monastic and gulag elements, Solovki is known as “an island in the vanguard of the times, an island that had free economic and informational contacts with the rest of the world….a place where people would go in their search for different kinds of meaning.
		The Solovki Islands are a rare and unusual place, a place of extremes found in nature and in man. Controversy continues between the power of the state, the power of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the power of the people.
	www.maidadance.com /Solovki_Report.htm (7260 words)

	Event: Solovki - 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The major aim of holding this camp is to demonstrate to the society, that young people are able to withstand all the hardships and privations of poor conditions and to serve the society without weapon.
		Besides, Solovki island is a unique and magnificent place in all accounts – nature, beauty and history.
		The activities of the voluntary youth camp “ Solovki – 2000 “ will be described on the pages of the information bulletin “ The Army of the Kindnes “ published by “ Social Partnership “ Foundation as well as the magazine “ Family and School “ and the newspaper “ Vremya MN “.
	www.worldvolunteerweb.org /dynamic/cfapps/national_profiles/details/national_events2.cfm?EventsID=1773&CountryID=TUR (390 words)

	Hieromartyrs And Martyrs Of Solovki 1 of 3
		Hieromartyrs And Martyrs Of Solovki 1 of 3
		Archimandrite Benjamin, the last superior of the Solovki monastery, was born in 1868 or 1869 in a peasant family in Shenkursk uyezd, Archangelsk province.
		The shots echoed through the forest, and the Solovki blizzard, to the singing of the north winds, buried the new hieromartyr in snow-white vestments.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/solovki-hieromartyrs-and-martyrs-01-of-03.html (2879 words)

	Sailing the White Sea to Solovki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But by the end of the four- or five-hour trip, Andryusha and I were friends, and when we arrived at Solovki, he said if I didn't find somewhere to sleep on the island, I could stay with his family on the boat.
		Solovki is featured on the 500-ruble note, but through a design glitch, the bill shows it not as a monastery but during its time as a prison camp.
		The scenery of Solovki is difficult to resist, with the presence of the water, the lush woods and the peaceful simplicity of life in the island's village.
	dev.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/07/15/044.html (998 words)

	Icons returned to Russian monastery after 83 years in exile
		Amid the chaos that followed the Russian revolution, the icons were thrust into the hands of a Royal Navy chaplain in the port of Archangel in 1918 by a monk from the historic monastery on the island of Solovki.
		Between the time of the icons' departure from Russia and their return to Solovki 83 years later, they moved with their Church of England guardians from parish to parish in Yorkshire, Humberside and Dorset before ending up in Cirencester, Glos.
		The three works, which date from the 19th century and bear the images of Christ the Saviour, St Panteleimon and Solovki's founders, Savvaty and Zosima, are now the oldest original icons belonging to the monastery in the far north.
	www.pravoslavie.ru /english/news010726.htm (480 words)

	MOSCOW (PETERSBURG) – KEM – SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS – KEM – MOSCOW (PETERSBURG)
		The biggest is the Greater Solovki Island, on which the famous medieval monastery stands.
		Solovki Monastery was often used as a prison for criminals and heretics.
		Solovki Island does not have rivers, but it has hundreds of lakes.
	eng.solovki.ru /page1.htm (2370 words)

	Holy Fathers of Solovki - Saints Herman, Zosima and Sabbatius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sabbatius had heard of the uninhabited island of Solovki, which lay two days' journey into the White Sea, and had come seeking passage to the island.
		They had not been there long when some shining youths appeared to his wife, sternly admonishing her to leave the island at once with the family in order to avoid being punished with a wicked death, because God had appointed the island for the monks alone.
		The night of their arrival Zosima had a vision of a magnificent church in the air; at the same time, the entire area appeared bathed in light.
	www.roca.org /OA/81/81m.htm (1044 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - Anya_D's Russia Travelogue - Solovetskie Islands
		Solovki lie in the White Sea, somewhere on the way between the cities of Archangelsk, Murmansk and Kem.
		The modern hystory of Solovki began in 1429, when two monks, German and Savvaty, reached the Islands in a small boat, and founded a settlement in the north-west side of Bolshoi (Big) Solovetsky Island, in the Pine-tree Bay (Sosnovaya Guba).
		Solovki is a unique natural, architectural and cultural monument.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/tt/96da (1760 words)

	www.solovkiisland.com
		The Solovetsky Archipelago is situated in the Onega gulf of the White Sea.
		Solovki were also known to by the local Northern tribes of the Saams, who used islands for their ancient burial grounds, and the Pomors who hunted and fished on the Islands' shores.In 1989 Solovki was also recognized as one of World Heritage of UNESCO landmarks.
		Built in 2003, Solovki Hotel is located in one of the most picturesque parts of the Solovki Island.
	www.solovkiisland.com (331 words)

	Abbeys Bookshop - Solovki: Story of Russia Told Through its Most Remarkable Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world.
		Roy Robson recounts the history of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage.
		But Solovki's glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage site - only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the "mother of the Gulag" system.
	www.abbeys.com.au /items/26/83/85 (267 words)

	Hieromartyrs And Martyrs Of Solovki 2 of 3
		Hieromartyrs And Martyrs Of Solovki 2 of 3
		Protopriest Alexander Sakharov, from the Petrograd diocese, died on Solovki in 1927.
		In the year 1929, in the frightful concentration camp of Solovki, beginning with the end of the winter there was a great increase of scurvy, and towards spring 18,000 prisoners of the fourth division of the camp (the division that occupied the island of Solovki itself), the number of those afflicted reached 5000.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/solovki-hieromartyrs-and-martyrs-02-of-03.html (3041 words)

	kim wilkie associates \| solovki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Following the Revolution, Solovki was commandeered as the first camp of what became the notorious Gulag Archipelago (1920-39).
		In 1992 Solovki was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and in 1995 the Archipelago was included by Presidential Decree in the List of Exceptionally Valuable Sites of Culture Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation.
		Historically the monastic complex was designed to host large numbers of pilgrims and could set the pattern for an exemplary kind of cultural and educational tourism.
	www.kimwilkie.com /pages/projects/environment/projects_environ_solovki.html (346 words)

	The Gulag Revisited : Death Camps on the Solovki Islands
		With its breathtaking scenery and almost unnatural silence, the Solovetsky or Solovki archipelago is a place of stunning beauty.
		Behind the lovely façade of the lakes, the lush forests and the ancient monastery, there is little to remind us of the atrocities committed in these very same forests during the early years of Soviet communism.
		Most of the prisoners in the Solovki were crammed in the overcrowded cells of the monastery, and in its narrow corridors.
	www.faits-et-documents.com /bilan_communisme/solovki_islands.htm (631 words)

	Virtual Tour of Solovki Monastery
		I've broken it into three pieces to keep its memory demands from overwhelming: first, the trip to the Islands and the first building on the tour; second, the monastery itself; third, and still incomplete, an informal history of the monastery.
		Very briefly: Solovki was first famous as a monastery, founded by hermit monks but eventually a well-off establishment that owned quite a bit of land along the shores of the White Sea.
		The cross is built in the traditional style for maritime crosses: no part of the wood touches the ground, it is held up by rocks to keep the damp ground from rotting the wood.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/sforres1/solovki1.html (827 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		The Solovki monastery was set up by Orthodox Saints Zosima and Savvaty on remote islands off the White Sea in the first half of the 15th century.
		Solovki became the last abode for the outstanding Russian philosopher, mathematician, chemist and priest Pavel Florensky and for scores of other prominent scholars, historians, writers and musicians.
		It was not until the early 70s that the Soviet government proclaimed the Solovki archipelago a nature preserve.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch171_eng.html (2003 words)

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