I used to be born and spent all my life in my native metropolis – Archangel. Archangel is the executive, industrial and cultural centre of Archangel half. It’s located on the Bankss of the Northern Dvina, non removed from the topographic level, the place river flows into the White Sea.
If you wish to maintain a greater expression of Archangel you must get down sightseeing from Pur-Navolok, the topographic level, the place in 1584 the metropolis was based by the order of Russian Tzar Ivan the Horrible.
The unique identify of the city was “ & # 1053 ; & # 1086 ; & # 1074 ; & # 1099 ; & # 1077 ; & # 1061 ; & # 1086 ; & # 1083 ; & # 1084 ; & # 1086 ; & # 1075 ; & # 1086 ; & # 1088 ; & # 1099 ; ” and it ‘s current identify dates again to 1613 and it’s linked with the identify of the Archangel Michael Monastery, which stood on the topographic level, the place Drama Theatre is now located. In 17-th century Archangel turned the foremost centre of Russian northern commerce with international states, an awesome sea and river port on the Northern Dvina.
The oldest edifice in Archangel is Gostiny Dvor, courting again to 1684.
In historic occasions Gostiny Dvor was a buying and selling centre and consisted of three elements: Russian and German paces and the cardinal part-fortress.
The Russian phrase “ Gosti ” meant “ merchandiser ” , so it was steadily referred to as merchandiser tempo, a buying and selling centre. Within the 17-
th century it was the biggest edifice of its type, however as we speak we will see merely little portion of this sensible and excellent edifice, which is now used as an exhibition corridor. Preparations are being made for Reconstruction of this alone composite. It’s deliberate to reconstruct the Russian merchandiser tempo in its unique signifier.
A number of minute stroll from this topographic level will take you to the memorial of Peter the Nice who did the nice commerce in direction of Russian improvement. It’s the work of the sculpturer of 19-th century – Mark Antokolsky. Peter the First is depicted within the uniform of a Preobrajenstij Regiment officer. In case you go down the “ & # 1050 ; & # 1088 ; & # 1072 ; & # 1089 ; & # 1085 ; & # 1072 ; & # 1103 ; & # 1055 ; & # 1088 ; & # 1080 ; & # 1089 ; & # 1090 ; & # 1072 ; & # 1085 ; & # 1100 ; ” your attending will probably be caught by a seafaring ship “ Zapad ” . This topographic level is named the Gatess to the Arctic.
The centre of the metropolis is the Lenin Sq., the place the chief administrative edifices, museums and shops are located. Right here you’ll be able to see the Northern Obelisk, so referred to as the image of Archangel. The bottom exhibits the chief subdivisions or financial system of Archangel half in previous centuries: logging, fishing, cowss breading and sawing. There are a batch of different attention-grabbing topographic factors to see, similar to our embankment, Youngsters ‘s Park and plenty of different.
