Arkhangelsk (rus)

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk ranks 1,803rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Eldoret, Thiruvananthapuram, and Reggio Emilia. Memorable people born in Arkhangelsk include Nikolai Kuznetsov, Mikhail Pletnev, and Boris Shilkov. Memorable people who died in Arkhangelsk include Boris Rosing. Arkhangelsk has been the birth place of many athletes, and chess players and the death place of many physicists. Arkhangelsk is located in Russia.

Arkhangelsk is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea. The city spreads for over 40 kilometres (25 mi) along the banks of the river and numerous islands of its delta. Arkhangelsk was the chief seaport of medieval and early modern Russia until 1703, when it was replaced by the newly founded Saint Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia