Kizhi Pogost

Karelia · Russia

Kizhi Pogost, Russia
Photo: Laban66, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
June to August
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An island ensemble of wooden churches on Lake Onega, crowned by a many-domed transfiguration church built without nails. The site preserves a rare tradition of northern Russian carpentry within an open-air museum.

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