Arkhangelsk - a city in the north of European Russia. The administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Primorsky Municipal District forms the municipality "City of Arkhangelsk." Population - 355.8 thousand people. [4]
Located on both banks of the Northern Dvina and the islands of the delta in the 30-35 km of the river flows into the White Sea. The climate is temperate maritime.
Arkhangelsk was founded by order of Ivan the Terrible in 1584, near the monastery of Archangel Michael (hence the name of the city). [6] City of Military Glory, was awarded the Order of Lenin.