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Category : Places in Russia - Arkhangelsk - Mezen

A private owner ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 "It was amoral to have private cows at the Soviet time. People who had them were called "" privatki"". But on private cow was allowed. Such a cow was like a member of the family."	Childen in Kimzha ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 The children look curiously at the photographer.	From the cemetery of Mezen - grave of a rich merchant. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 A grave of a rich Russian merchant Ivan Ruzynikov.
Goats on the streets of Kimzha ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-0 Goats on the streets of Kimzha.	Odigitriyevskaya church in Kimzha. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 The Odigitriyevskaya church (The church of Marias path finder) in Kimzha. The church was finished in 1781 - after 70 years of building work.	Olga Gundersen ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 Olga Gundersen is a descendant of the Norwegian Solfest Gundersen, who settled in Mezen. Now she lives in St.Petersburg.
Sofya Kuzmina, born Gundersen, by the her mother Annas grave. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 Sofya Kuzmina is a descendant of the Norwegian Solfest Gundersen, who came to Russia in 1892.	The bus stop in the Sovietskaja street ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 People entering the bus in the Sovietskaja street - the main of Mezen.	The grave of Georgy Solfestovich Gundersen in Mezen ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 A grave of a Norvegian man Gundersen, Georgy Solfestovich in Russia.
The house of Georgij Gundersen - a descendant of a Norseman. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 This house belongs to Georgy Gundersen, a son of Solfest Gundersen, who was a Norwegian who settled in Mezen after a shipwreck. Now his daughter Sofia Kuzmina lives here.	The main street of Kimzha. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 There are no wide and clean streets in Kimzya. But there is a wooden pawement, which is typical for North Russian villages.	The public transport. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 The village Mezen there is no traffic problems - because there is just a few cars. It is normal to see horses transporting people on the streets.
The Ural motorcycle - as usual followed by a running dog. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 Having a motorcycle in this small place is the same as to have a fashion car in a big city.	The village Kimzha ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 The village Kimzha is situated on a branch (a side river) of the river Mezen	The village Kimzja and the Odigitriyevskaya church. ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 A wooden church is a symbol of Old Russia. Mainly we find them in The North-Western North part of Russia. Here from the village Kimzja close to Mezen. Here, 200 km east of Archangel, the life goes on like it did two hundred years ago. Perhaps therefore it was used as location for the film about the universal genie Lomanosov, who grew up in a small Northern village close to Arkhangelsk, and now is recognized as the father of the Moscow University.
Wooden mill in Kimzha ©Øyvind Ravna Date: 1995-08 An old wooden mill in Kimzha. In the old times they produce their own corn here.