Places worth the detour in Arkhangelsk Oblast
Detourmap lists 60 places in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Vaygach Island. 29 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 60
- Oldest
- Het Behouden Huys 1596
- Little known
- 29 of 60
- Share of Russia
- 6%
Arkhangelsk Oblast 60
All 60, best known first.
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57.Stone labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Physico-geographical object
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60.Het Behouden Huys
Archaeological · 16th century · Hidden gem
Overwintering shelter built by Willem Barents on Novaya Zemlya in 1596
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Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Arkhangelsk Oblast?
Vaygach Island. Island. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Arkhangelsk Oblast?
60: 57 nature & landscapes and 3 archaeological & historic sites. 29 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Arkhangelsk Oblast?
Het Behouden Huys, dated to 1596. 4 of the 60 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Arkhangelsk Oblast here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Arkhangelsk Oblast if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Arkhangelsk Oblast is a first-level division of Russia, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

































