Guarded window of the St Sergius Skete on the Big Muksalma Island on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, Russia


The skete was used as a woman prison of the Solovki prison camp SLON in the Gulag time. The grate was made in that time. The Solovetsky Islands has been inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List.


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