Solovetsky Islands, Russia VR 360

The Solovetsky Islands, or Solovki, are the largest archipelago of the White Sea with six big islands and around a hundred smaller islands. The first people inhabited these territories 6,000-7,000 years ago, back in the Stone Age. Some remnants of these ancient times have remained here: stone man sites, ancient sanctuaries and stone helical labyrinths up to 25 meters in length. But the Solovetsky Islands are primarily famous for other landmarks.In the 12th century, the first Russian colonists started to arrive here. In 1429, the first monk settlement was founded, and seven years later, monks Savvaty, Zosima and German founded the Solovetsky Monastery on the same named largest island of the archipelago.