page_title: Kargopolsky District
section_title: Culture and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Kargopolsky District / Culture and recreation
caption_attribution_description: English: Wooden church of St John Chrysostom (1665) with bell tower in Kiprovo (formerly Saunino), Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia Русский: Ансамбль погоста села Саунино This is a photo of a cultural heritage object in Russia, number: 2910051001 This template and pages using it are maintained by the Russian WLM team. Please read the guidelines before making any changes that can affect the monuments database! This is a photo of a cultural heritage object in Russia, number: 2910051002 This template and pages using it are maintained by the Russian WLM team. Please read the guidelines before making any changes that can affect the monuments database!
context_page_description: Kargopolsky District is an administrative district, one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kargopolsky Municipal District. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders with Plesetsky District in the north, Nyandomsky District in the northeast, Konoshsky District in the east, Kirillovsky District of Vologda Oblast in the south, Vytegorsky District, also of Vologda Oblast, in the southwest, and with Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia in the northwest. The area of the district is 10,127 square kilometers. Its administrative center is the town of Kargopol. Population: 18,466; 21,514; 24,589. The population of Kargopol accounts for 55.3% of the district's total population.
context_section_description: Kargopolsky District has a very high concentration of historical, archaeological, and architectural monuments. The district contains 40 objects (thirteen of them in Kargopol) classified as cultural and historical heritage by Russian Federal law, and additionally 182 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local importance. Most of these are the white-stone churches of the town of Kargopol and wooden churches and chapels located in the area. The town of Kargopol contains a number of white-stone churches, the earliest of which, the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, dates back to 1552. This is the oldest building of mainland Arkhangelsk Oblast (some buildings of the Solovetsky Monastery also stem from the 16th century).
  The monuments classified as historical and architectural heritage include:
  The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ (1552–1562) with the bell-tower (1766–1767) in Kargopol
  The Resurrection Church (end of 17th century) in Kargopol
  The Church of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (1740–1751) in Kargopol
  The Holy Trinity Church (1790–1802) in Kargopol
  The Presentation Church (1803) in Kargopol
  The ensemble of three churches: the Annunciation Church (1692), the Saint Nicholas Church (1741), and the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos (1678–1680) in Kargopol
  The ensemble of Aleksandro-Oshevensky Monastery (from 1707) in Oshevensk
  The ensemble of Pogost Bolshaya Shalga consisting of the Nativity Church (1745) and the Intercession Church (1857) in Bolshaya Shalga
  The Saint Nicholas Church (1659) in Pavlovsky Pogost; no longer exists
  The Saint Nicholas Church (1666) in Volosovo
  The Church of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple in Krasnaya Lyaga, a former village west of Kargopol;
  The triple ensemble in Lyadiny (Gavrilovskaya) the Church of the Protection of the Theotokos (1693), the Intercession Church (1761), and the bell-tower (1820). The Intercession Church and the bell-tower burned down on May 6, 2013 and do not any longer exist.
  The Saint Nicholas Chapel (18th century) in Nikolskaya
  The ensemble of the Saunino Pogost consisting of the Church of Saint John Chrysostom (1665) and the bell-tower (18th century) in Kiprovo
  The only state museum in the district is Kargopol State Museum of History, Art, and Architecture, founded in 1919. This is cloak organization, which not only holds ethnographic, art and historic exhibits, but also protects some of the architectural monuments in Kargopol and surroundings. Fifteen buildings, including a number of churches, belong to the museum. Another museum was open in 1994 in the school of the selo of Lyadiny. There are also two private museums in Kargopol.
  There is a traditional handicraft in Kargopol and the area which is production of painted clay toys.
caption: The Saunino Pogost: the wooden church of St. John Chrysostom (1665) with bell tower
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