page_title: Vologda
section_title: Culture and art
hierarchical_section_title: Vologda / Culture and art
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of Vologda Kremlin. Русский: Панорама Кремлевской площади.
context_page_description: Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. Population: 301,755; 293,046; 282,802.
  The city serves as a major transport hub of the Northwest of Russia. The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has classified Vologda as an historic city, one of forty-one in Russia and one of only three in Vologda Oblast. 224 buildings in Vologda have been officially recognized as cultural heritage monuments.
context_section_description: Vologda is one of the best preserved big cities of Russia combining traditional wooden architecture and stone monuments. In Vologda, 193 monuments of architecture and history are designated as cultural monuments of federal significance. The most known of them are
  Vologda Kremlin (Bishop's courtyard)
  Saint Sophia cathedral
  Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery
  ensemble of the Vladimir churches
  Konstantin and Elena church, St. John the Baptist Church in Roshcheniye with its frescoes
  Dmitry Prilutsky church
  Church of the Intercession on Kozlyona
  architectural ensembles of the Stone bridge and of the Revolyutsii Square
  Of 116 historical cities of Russia only 16 have monuments of wooden architecture. Vologda is among them.
caption: Panorama of the Vologda Kremlin
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