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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
About PINTOMAP Solovetsky Islands (Europe / Eastern Europe / Russia)Solovetsky Islands (), also known as Solovki, are a group of islands in the White Sea in the Onega Bay. The islands are administered by Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia as Solovetsky District. White Sea (Europe / Eastern Europe / Russia / Respublika Kareliya)The White Sea () is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the northeast. Solovetsky Monastery (Europe / Eastern Europe / Russia)Solovetsky Monastery (Соловецкий монастырь in Russian), was the greatest citadel of Christianity in the Russian North before being turned into a special Soviet prison and labor camp (1926-1939), which served as a prototype for the GULAG system. Situated on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, the monastery braved many changes of fortune and military sieges. | ||