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Solvychegodsk (Russian: Сольвычего́дск, lit. 'salt on the Vychegda') is a town in Kotlassky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right-hand bank of the Vychegda River, about 25 kilometers (16 mi) northeast of Kotlas, the administrative center of the district.
Despite its sleepy appearance, Solvychegodsk contains two of the most elaborate examples of religious architecture and applied arts in all Russia.
- Anna Sorokina
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Among the many treasures in the Russian North, few are as improbable as the town of Solvychegodsk, located on the north bank of the Vychegda River not far from its confluence with the Northern...
- William Brumfield
Solvychegodsk is one of the smallest cities in the modern Russia. On the ferry, crossing slowly the River Vychegda it would be hardly visible, unless the grandiose stone cathedrals, the witnesses of the once great Stroganoff dynasty.
His son, Fyodor Lukich Stroganov (d. 1497), the latest common ancestor of the family, settled in Solvychegodsk (also in the Russian north). He was a local salt industrialist and owner of properties in town, which he passed down to his elder son, Vladimir.
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