Solovetsky Island (RUS)

An exemplary place of Russian History

Isolated and meager Islands in the white sea. Main attraction is the

famous Russian Solovetsky Monastery Complex who was founded in

the 15th century. In the 18th century it was expanded to a strategic

unconquerable stronghold. Tsars and Sovjets used it as a prison

camp. Alexander Solzhenitsin called it the mother of the GULAG.