Kidzhi

Kizhi is one of the largest museums of wooden architecture of the Russian North. The basis of the collection is an outstanding monument of folk architecture - the Kizhi architectural ensemble, the Transfiguration Church, built in 1714, - the main building of the Kizhi Pogost.

Kizhi is a wonderful treasure island. It preserves amazing monuments of wooden architecture, created by the golden hands of folk craftsmen. One of the famous temples – the Transfiguration Church, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, in 2014 turned 300 years old. According to the UNESCO classification, it belongs to category 1 – “the unsurpassed creation of human genius”.

Programme:

- Hovercraft boarding. Transition on Lake Onega to Kizhi Island (1 hour 40 minutes).

- Excursion program to the museum-reserve with a visit to the Pokrovsky Church and ethnographic expositions.

Additional excursion: a trip on the brichka (winter on a sleigh) to the villages and remote expositions on the island of Kizhi.

- Arrival in Petrozavodsk.

Duration: 8.5 hours.