Solovki

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Solovetsky Monastery is an Orthodox monastery located on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea.
It arose in the 1429-1430s, rebuilt in stone by the works of St. Philip (Kolychev), in pre-Petrine times was among the largest landowners of the state. In 1669-1676. besieged by the tsarist troops as one of the centers of resistance to the Nikonian reforms.
In 1920 the monastery was closed. Monastic life was resumed on October 25, 1990.
In 1992, the complex of monuments of the Solovetsky Museum-Reserve was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, in 1995 - in the State Code of the most valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation.