2025 Arkhangelsk Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in October)

If you are looking for large exotic creatures then this is not the place for you. If you want to see a wide variety of creatures and have the chance to feed some then this is the place for you. It is obvious they are trying to improve the enclosures-especially in the second part of the zoo but most creatures only have the feel of concrete or sand under their feet. The zoo offers a wide range of activities for the young or young at heart in the funfair section. The zoo gets very busy and is highly popular with children. #givethanks #givethanks

#hellohalloween How beautiful! The Malye Korely Museum-Reserve is one of the largest museums of wooden architecture in Russia. It houses houses, churches, barns, and bell towers from all over the Arkhangelsk region. All of this is not housed in pavilions, but right among the forests and hills, like a true northern village. The museum currently has four sections, each like a separate village. You can easily come for the whole day and head straight to the far corners, where there are fewer people and the air is cleaner. In the summer, folk festivals, workshops, and fairs are held here, and in the winter, the museum transforms into a Christmas fairytale. ⸻ 💵 Entrance Fee (current as of 2025) • Adults: 250 to 400 ₽ (depending on the day of the week) • Seniors: 200 to 300 ₽ • Children (6-14 years): about 100 ₽ • Children under 6 are free ⸻ 🚌 How to get there The museum is located approximately 25 km from Arkhangelsk, in the village of Malye Korely. 🚗 By car: The journey takes about 25 minutes, and there is a large parking lot at the entrance. 🚌 By bus: Routes 104 (from the train station) and 108 (from the bus station via Bobrovo) go directly to the "Malye Korely" stop. ⸻ 🎯 Things to do • Stroll through all the sectors—each one tells a story of its own corner of the North. • Visit a wooden church and listen to its echoing sounds. • Have a picnic in a clearing by the river. • Photograph the ancient roofs and carved window frames—they look different in every light. ⸻ Tip: Come in the morning, when the fog still lingers between the trees. Then the museum feels less like a tourist spot and more like a living village from another century. ⸻ Malye Korely is more than just a museum. It's a space where wood, silence, and air create a special sense of peace. And it seems that if you stand there a little longer, you can hear the past creaking in the wind.

#hellohalloween The North doesn't like fuss. Arkhangelsk is one of those cities where everything needs to be done slowly, carefully, with a sense of the wind and the taste of salt on your lips. 📍 Here's a checklist of what you absolutely must try here: ☕ Drink Mezen-style coffee. It's brewed with salt water and spices in a samovar. The drink is strong, like the northern character—not everyone will like it, but it's worth a try. 🍨 Try ice cream with porcini mushrooms and sorrel. It sounds strange, but it tastes like a cool summer in a northern forest. 🚢 Take a steamboat ride along the Northern Dvina. It's the only surviving paddle steamer in Russia. It's over a century old, and all the equipment is original. 🪵 Find all the wooden wizards. The city is full of carved sculptures and characters from northern legends—leshys, Mezen birds, sea spirits. 🏚️ Get lost in Kemsky settlement. Arkhangelsk's old wooden district. Narrow streets, the smell of river water, slanted houses. It's easy to get lost there, but pleasant to find. 🌉 Walk across the suspension bridge over the Solombalka River. It sways underfoot, and beneath it lies the dark northern water. ⚙️ Watch the Severodvinsk Bridge rise. It's a spectacle where engineering resembles ballet—slowly, precisely, and powerfully. 🌅 Watch the sunset on the Northern Dvina embankment. As the sun sets behind the river, the city seems to dissolve into the golden air. ⸻ Arkhangelsk is a city with character. Here, coffee is brewed with salt water, the sun sets in the river, and people smile as if they know something about the north that we don’t.

Russia, a cold country, is a country in northern Eurasia and is the largest country in the world with an area of ​​17,098,246 square kilometers, covering one-eighth of the world's habitable area. With a population of 146 million people, we go there every year in the winter. The weather is good in winter -30,-27, although it is a bit cold, especially in January, but it is a new and exciting thing for us, who live in the tropics. The weather is cold, but the people there are used to it and do their daily lives normally. They go to work, go to school in the snow, it is normal for them, but it is strange for us. The sun rises at 10 o'clock and sets at 14 o'clock, and we are very happy to see the sunlight every day, even though it does not help to warm us at all. No matter how cold it is, we still love this country and we go there every year in the winter.