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| Solovetsky Monastery |
This place is a hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle. In brief:
The Solovetsky Monastery is a fortified monastery located on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea in northern Russia. It was one of the largest Christian citadels in northern Russia before it was converted into a Soviet prison and labor camp in 1926 to 1939, and served as a prototype for the camps of the Gulag system. The monastery has experienced several major changes and military sieges. Its most important structures date from the 16th century, when Filip Kolychev was its hegumen (comparable to an abbot). - Wikipedia
P. S. Just figured this out, so I thought I would 'share'. Gawd, I hates that word 'share'. What's wrong with tell? Whatever, I'm a gonna tell y'all 'bout it. Google Maps won't display grid lines, but Google Earth will. You just have to enable them on the layers menu.
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| Solovetsky Monastery |
That's Murmansk up near the top.
One of my Jr High teachers was a British newspaper reporter in WWII. He wrote a book called Focke-Wulf about riding the convoys of mostly American war materiels from England to Murmansk, then by train to the Eastern Front which allowed the Russians to stop the Nazi invasion. It was tough going in winter.
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