Route 66

Northern European Russia


American-style diner-bar with orange leather seats and a surprisingly good selection of English beers on top of its palatable own brew. Live bands on weekends.


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1. Captured British Mark V Tank

0.34 MILES

A British tank on the streets of a Russian city is an unusual sight indeed. This one, which saw service in WWI, was captured by the Red Army in 1919 after…

2. Regional Studies Museum

0.36 MILES

The history section charts the development of the harsh north, from its settlement by dispossessed and exiled peasantry in the 1930s, to the Gulag camps,…

3. Fine Arts Museum

0.39 MILES

Arkhangelsk’s most compelling art gallery has regularly changing exhibitions that range from modern reflections on Soviet propaganda to pop art. Upstairs…

4. War Victory Monument 1941-1945

0.47 MILES

Memorial consisting of an eternal flame flanked by grim-faced statues of servicemen, honouring the fallen of the Great Patriotic War.

5. Lair of Art Gallery

0.52 MILES

In the fine Marfin Mansion, the Lair of Art Gallery hosts occasional mini-concerts, but is most interesting for its furnished interior and large model of…

6. Prospekt Chumbarova-Luchinskogo

0.59 MILES

Arkhangelsk's appealing pedestrian street is lined with a a few surviving traditional timber houses that are in the process of being restored, cosy cafes,…

7. Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny

0.6 MILES

Given the first hint of warm summer weather, Arkhangelskians emerge to stroll this broad promenade and loiter in any of its many seasonal beer-and…

8. Gostiny Dvor

0.65 MILES

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Arkhangelsk’s heart and soul was this merchants' yard, a grand, turreted brick trading centre built between 1668 and 1684…