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The Kizhi Open-Air Museum of History, Airchitecture and
Ethnography is one of the first museums of this kind in Russia. Its history dates from the
1950s, when the architect A.V. Opolovnikov (Moscow) designed the first exhibition
complexes and managed the restoration of the buildings. In 1966 the museum obtained the
status of an open-air museum (museum-reserve). It is situated on a small island (6 km long
and 50 m -1 km wide in the Lake Onego, 67 km north from Petrozavodsk in the area of the
Kizhi Skerries of Zaonezhiye.
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Wooden Churches on the Island of Kizhi
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A group of impressive wooden churches erected in the 18th
century for the Kizhi Pogost (parish) still dominates the island. It consists of the Church of
the Transfiguration with 22 onion-shaped domes, the Church of the Intercession with nine
domes of the same kind and a Bell Tower, all surrounded by a log wall.
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