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Фото: Е. Мазилов
White Sea colors on a nightless night is the Yagry Island just an
hour’s drive from Arkhangelsk.
Arkhangelsk Oblast is commonly referred to as
‘Pomorye’ (coastal area). The life of its residents has at Northern lights and white nights
all times been closely linked with the sea and rivers.
The stern beauty of the White Sea fascinates in Arkhangelsk Oblast has many different looks.
any season. Despite the coldness of its waters, this Winters delight with magic of the northern lights in
SOZVEZDYE #42 sea is full of life, being home to jellyfish, mussels, starlit sky and sparkling snow, its cover thick on the
corals, starfish, and dense communities of kelp. The tree branches. In the summer, time seems to stop,
White Sea is famous for its fish – navaga, cod, her- each day lasting indefinitely and giving way to a white
туризм ring and salmon – and is inhabited by sea hare, ringed night.
The white night season lasts from May to mid-
tourism seal, whales, narwhals and world’s largest population summer. Here, the longest day has a duration of
of Greenland seal. Here, tsar Peter I, guided by the
Dutch and English skippers, learned the skill of nav- around 21 hours. White nights are a great time for
igation and had laid the cradle for the nation’s fleet at long walks along the embankment of the Northern
shipyards of Solombala. Dvina River and the pedestrian Chumbarov-Luchin-
The best place to get the feel of the White Sea with sky Avenue full of wooden architecture. No less de-
74 its salty, iodine-rich odour, gaze at Aurora Borealis lightful is this time on the White Sea coast – the soft
flair above the endless ice, and enjoy bright sunset touch of waves encroaching on the sand, the fading