Kem (literally "Big River") is an ancient Pomorian town at the mouth of the same river, near the place where it flows into the White Sea, 434 km from Petrozavodsk.

There is an interesting museum of Pomor culture in Kemi, three architectural monuments of national importance, over 30 architectural and historical objects of national importance

Modern Kem - city of railwaymen, power engineers and loggers

Content 1 How to call 2 How to get 2.1 Search for tickets to the city of Petrozavodsk (the nearest airport to Kemi) 3 Hotels Kemi 4 Entertainment, excursions and attractions Kemi 5 Museums "Pomorie" @ 5.1 We also recommend

How to call

+ 7-81458 - phone number.

How to get to

From Petrozavodsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vologda and Minsk by trains to Murmansk. Suburban trains run to Malenga, Louhi and Bear Mountain.

The mode of operation of the ticket office of the railway station: 7: 50-9: 30, 12: 00-14: 30, 18: 00-19: 30, 20: 00- 1:00, 3: 00-3: 30, 5: 30-7: 20.

Hotels Kemi

There are two hotels in the city with a rather high level of service, supply and car care services are well supplied: "Kuzova" (1 Frunze st., Tel .: ( 814-58) 2-22-57) and "Prichal" (settlement of Rabocheostrovsk, Naberezhnaya street, 1, tel .: (814-58) 5-60-60).

Entertainment, excursions and sightseeing Kemi

The territory of the Kemsky district found the sites of the primitive man of the Mesolithic age. The Kemsky coast keeps traces of Viking campaigns of 9-10 centuries.

During the Stalinist repressions in the city there was a transit point through which the prisoners of the Solovetsky camp passed. The building, which housed the management of the Solovki camps, was preserved. In the city there is a worship cross in honor of those who died in the camps

30 km from Kemi, on the way to Solovki, on the islands German and Russian Kuzova found "pantheon of Saami", consisting of numerous figures made of stones. The figures separately remind people, animals, birds. This Seyda is the sacred stone of the Saami.

On the way to Solovki, tourists have the opportunity to visit the Kuzovets archipelago, which has the status of a landscape reserve .The reserve was created with the purpose of preserving the landscapes and peculiar flora and fauna of the White Sea islands . It covers the islands of the Russian and German Kuzov, Oleshin, Upper, Middle, Residential, Seto, Lodein, Kurichya Niloksa, Chernetsky, Northern Tupilikha . Archipelago - one of the most beautiful in the White Sea with many picturesque rocky coasts rising over the water more than 100 m . Here there are places of mass nesting of many seabirds (auk, polar tern, Atlantic clew, eider, etc. .), there are eagles -be wool and kestrel, listed in the Red Books of Karelia and Russia . The sea hare, ringed seal, beluga whale lives in the waters .

Museums "Pomorie"

Address: ul. Vitsupa, 12; tel .: (814-58) 225-71; working hours: daily from 10:00 to 17:00, closed on Monday, in summer - every day

The museum "Pomorye" stores exhibits telling about the life of the local population: objects of everyday life, work, folk decorative and applied art. The exposition of the museum:

• "Room of Kemsky urban dwellers of the beginning of the 20th century": collections of city furniture, household utensils, clothes, utensils and other things
• "Merchant Shop": exhibits of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, collection of gramophone records, table and ceiling kerosene lamps, coffee grinders, beer bottles, bells
• "Orthodox shrines": icons of the 18th and early 20th centuries, oil painting, psalters, prayer books, a collection of small copper plastics, 18th-century bronze Old Believers, , correspondence the Dormition Cathedral Kemi to Arkhangelsk county and provincial government agencies, the layout of the Assumption Cathedral, made of matches
• "Sea - our field", dedicated to Pomorsky shipbuilding, maritime Kem school, hunting for sea mammals, sea and river fishing, salt production. At this exhibition photos on marine crafts, collections of books and documents on navigation, seaworthy instruments and equipment are shown
• "Pomor cuisine"
• "I discovered this city" (Kem of Catherine II's time)
• "Spiritual and material Pomor culture of the Kemsky Uyezd of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "

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