Culture and Recreation
The district contains nine objects of cultural heritage protected at the federal level (all of them in Solvychegodsk), and additionally fifty-two monuments of history and architecture of local importance (thirty-three of them in Solvychegodsk). Most of these are brickstone churches built prior to 1917. The federal list of cultural heritage includes the following Solvychegodsk ensembles:
- former Presentation Monastery, including the Presentation Church (1688—1712), one of the five surviving Stroganov baroque churches
- former Annunciation Cathedral (1560—1584) with the adjacent bell-tower
- Church of the Holy Mandylion (Spaso-Obydenskaya Church, 1691—1697)
- Pyankov House (19th century)
The biggest museum in the district, Solvychegodsk Museum of Art and History, is housed in the former Annunciation Cathedral in Solvychegodsk. There is also a small private museum devoted to the fictional author Kozma Prutkov, who, according to the official biography, was born in Solvychegodsk. In the village of Medvedki there is the museum devoted to the Soviet naval officer Nikolay Kuznetsov, who was born in Medvedki and eventually reached the ranks of the Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces.
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