Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk is a metropolis and the place of job of Arkhangelsk Oblast, inside the north of European Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its go out into the White Sea. The town spreads for over forty kilometers along the banks of the river and numerous islands of its delta. Arkhangelsk changed into the leader seaport of medieval and early current Russia until 1703. A 1,133-kilometer-lengthy railway runs from Arkhangelsk to Moscow thru Vologda and Yaroslavl, and air travel is served with the aid of the Talagi Airport and a smaller Vaskovo Airport.

As of the 2010 Census, the town's populace was 348,783, down from 356,051 recorded inside the 2002 Census, and in addition down from 415,921 recorded in the 1989 Census. Arkhangelsk changed into home to Pomorsky State University and Arkhangelsk State Technical University which merged with several other institutions of higher mastering in 2010 to form the Northern Arctic Federal University. Arkhangelsk is also home to the Northern State Medical University, Makarov kingdom Maritime Academy, and a department of the All-Russian Distance Institute of Finance and Economics.

Another exceptional shape is the Arkhangelsk TV Mast, a 151-meter 495 ft tall guyed mast for FM-/TV-broadcasting built in 1964. This tubular steel mast has six crossbars prepared with gangways, which run in two degrees from the central mast structure out to the every of the three guys. On these crossbars there are also numerous antennas established photograph. An unusual example of nearby "vernacular architecture" was the so-referred to as Sutyagin residence. This thirteen-story, 44-meter 144 toes tall house of the local entrepreneur Nikolay Petrovich Sutyagin was reported to be the world's, or at least Russia's, tallest wooden house.