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Kizhi island
Kizhi island is blessed with one of the most picturesque ensembles of Russian wooden churches. Kizhi island provides the most scenic destination on Russia’s greatest waterway, the Volga. Situated in the geographical centre of Lake Onega, A ___________. Kizhi has long since been a strategic stopover for travellers.
At one point in the 16th century, the island was declared a pogost (or parish centre) by the Russian Orthodox Church, and produced lumber and iron in an economy B ________. In the 1950s, the island was almost forgotten. Most of the
inhabitants left, and all of the original villages disappeared, C _________.
Today, this collection of traditional log structures, centred on two churches and a bell tower, is still called the Kizhi Pogost. It lives on D _________. The pogost and the other remaining buildings from the region were collected in the 1960s and restored within this newly established reserve for historical wooden, ings.
The buildings were set in three special sectors, named after the regions E __________: North Karelia, Karelia, and Pudozhsky. Moreover, the island was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1990.
Kizhi is especially beautiful during long northern summers F __________. Yet winter mornings show off the complex in dazzling light, making it look like a fairy-tale setting.
1. that included more than 100 villages
2. which is located just near the lake
3. which is Europe’s second-largest lake
4. that the structures originally came from
5. leaving behind impressive wooden relics
6. as one of Russia’s greatest open-air museums
7. when the church domes shine with magic light
