ДЕРЖАВИН ГАВРИИЛ РОМАНОВИЧ (1743–1816) составил эпоху в истории литературы. Его произведения – величественные, энергичные и совершенно неожиданные для второй половины восемнадцатого века – оказали и до сегодняшнего дня продолжают оказывать влияние на развитие русской поэзии.

... Алмазна сыплется гора
С высот четыремя скалами,
Жемчугу бездна и сребра
Кипит внизу, бьет вверх буграми,
От брызгов синий холм стоит,
Далече рев в лесу гремит…

Г.Р. Державин "Водопад" (Кивач)

The Friends of Kondopoga is a support group with a special interest in the socially active parish of the Assumption in Kondopoga, Karelia (North West Russia).

Kondopoga is around 400 miles north of St Petersburg. This area was sparsely inhabited until Stalin's Gulag system was established, so the inhabitants of Kondopoga are mostly descendants either of prison guards, or of people who were relocated to work on the various labour schemes. The last priest in Kondopoga was shot in the 1930's when religion was declared eradicated from Karelia. In 1991, twenty locals succeeded in their petitions for a priest and were sent Father Lev Bolshakov and his wife Mother Julia. Since then an extraordinary community has been created in this rootless and deprived town.

В Кондопоге в рамках реализации республиканской программы профилактики правонарушений установлена современная система уличного видеонаблюдения...