Tourist Sights of Karelia: The KIZHI State Open-Air Museum of History, Architecture and Ethnography
The KIZHI State Open-Air Museum of History, Architecture and Ethnography is located on the island Kizhi in the Lake Onega in 65 km distance from Petrozavodsk. The architectural complex includes 70 monuments of folk wooden architecture of XV-XX centuries. The gem of the complex is Kizhsky pogost ensemble. It consists of Transfiguration church (1714), Pokrovskaya Church(1764) and the bell-tower (1874). In 1990 the monuments of Kizhsky Pogost and the surrounding buildings were included into the List of the All-World Significant Cultural and Natural Heritage by UNESCO general session decision.