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Bolshaya Shalga, Saunino, Krasnaya Lyaga
Three places (mostly abandoned villages) in the Arkhangelsk oblast in the vicinity of Kargopol, where you can find old wooden churches.
Bolshaya Shalga
The wooden tented Church of the Nativity of Christ (1745) is unusual: it has a large apse, but there is no refectory at all. Fresh scaffolding gives hope that it will not be allowed to collapse completely.
Removed old head.
Nearby is the Church of the Intercession (mid-19th century).
The Forest Raised a Christmas Tree.
Getting in (as of August 2023): 10 kilometers to the East from Kargopol towards Nyandoma.
Saunino
Saunino (now Zalyazhye) is a village four kilometers north of Kargopol. The tented wooden church of St. John Chrysostom with a bell tower was built here in 1665.
If you're lucky (or if you arrange a visit in advance), you can get inside - the temple is a branch of the Kargopol Museum. Inside, painted ceiling or "skies" and the skeleton of the iconostasis have been preserved.
The narthex
A refectory with columns.
A worn-out crack through which the rope used to ring the bell was previously stretched.
Details.
The cat went fishing.
Getting in: Take a highway towards Plesetsk cosmodrome to the North from Kargopol. On demand bus tours are also available.
Krasnaya Lyaga
The roads in Arkhangelsk oblast are often surrounded with tickets of phototoxic Sosnowsky's hogweed.
Here, also the tented and no less wooden Church of the Presentation of St. Michael's (1655) has been preserved and almost completely restored.
View from the apse side.
Details.
You can look inside through the window. There you can see the skeleton of the altar and the dismantled blue "skies" with stars.
Waiting for the summer shower.
Getting in: drive 18 kilometers along the highway towards Pudozh, and then turn right in the village of Vatmanovskaya towards Kuchepaldy and drive another 5 kilometers past thickets of hogweed.
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