Where is the White Sea, and how to get there?

If we briefly answer the question about where the White Sea is located , then the answer will turn out to be quite uncomplicated - in the North. But let's try to give a more meaningful answer. The point here is that the Russian North is a whole separate world, the existence of which many do not even suspect. Many residents of the capital do not have the slightest business to everything that is beyond the Moscow Ring Road from the north-eastern side.

On North

But if someone seriously will be interested in the question of where the White Sea is located, then it is best to go to search for him from the Yaroslavsky Railway Station in Moscow. This sea is not so big in size. Of all the seas washing the territory of Russia, only Azov is smaller in area. But in its significance for Russia, it is by no means the last. It will not be a big exaggeration to say that Russian civilization began from its shores. It still has a kind of spiritual dimension in the Russian national consciousness. If a person searches for something more than taking pictures of himself, his beloved, against the background of the world-recognized tourist attractions of the warm seas, he should go here to find out where the White Sea is. Here still Russian history is alive. It froze in the stone of ancient Orthodox monasteries and ancient examples of traditional wooden architecture. Many works of ancient builders shock the imagination to this day, especially when it turns out that they were built without a single nail. In the history of Russia, this land is special because he never knew serfdom and the slave consciousness corresponding to him. And these places did not know the Mongol-Tatar invasion either. In particular, this is also why Northern Russia is somewhat different from other Russia. In general, there are so many reasons to find out where the White Sea is.

Islands of the White Sea

The most significant - both in size and historical heritage - are the Solovetsky Islands, located at the entrance to Onega Bay. Findings of archeologists indicate that people lived on these lands since ancient times. But only six of these islands have become truly famous in Russian history, and since the middle of the fifteenth century, when the first monks appeared on them. It was these ancient hermits that founded the first sketes. Thanks to these people, the White Sea, where the Solovetsky Monastery is located, has become a kind of center of pilgrimage for believers of the entire Orthodox world. The Solovetsky Monastery complex was built by the works of many generations of monks for several centuries. But he gained his glory in the twentieth century, when the monastery was turned by the Bolsheviks into the first concentration camp. Hence the bloody Stalinist repression began, and many Russian people found their deaths on the Solovetsky Islands. But today the Solovetsky Monastery is restored in its original status, many churches and historical buildings are restored or restored. Solovki islands again are a place where both Orthodox believers and ordinary tourists aspire.