Lake Ladoga. The hermitages and the Central Section of the Transfiguration of Savior Valaam Monastery are located on the islands of the Valaam Archipelago. The monastery was founded in the late 11th or the early 12 century (the exact date is not known).
- Categories: Environmental Issues, Religion & Belief
- Location: Republic of Karelia, Russia
- Event date: 01.08.1990
- Date published: 23.10.2022
- Author: Sergey Samokhin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: DP90-4498, 35 mm slide
- Media: JPEG, 5186x3543px, 11.7Mb