Photo excursion - Kizhi Museum-Reserve (95 photos) (part 2)

26 October 2012

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On January 1, 1966, the Kizhi State Historical and Architectural Museum was founded on the basis of the architectural ensemble of the Kizhi Pogost. Where, in addition to the buildings existing in their original places, a large number of chapels, houses and outbuildings from Zaonezhye and other regions of Karelia were brought. According to one legend, the Church of the Transfiguration was built with one ax, which the master then threw into the lake.
There are also several villages on the island, which together make up the settlement of Kizhi, which is part of the Velikogubsky rural settlement of the Medvezhyegorsk district (until 2004, it was administratively part of the city of Petrozavodsk).

In 1990, the Kizhi Pogost was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List; in 1993, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the architectural collection of the open-air museum was included in the State Code of Particularly Valuable Objects of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia.