The New Student's Reference Work/Archangel

Archangel (ark-ān′ jĕl), a Russian city on the River Dvina, 750 miles northeast of St. Petersburg.  It has a large trade in timber, tallow and tar; it is connected with the interior by river and canal.  Population, 35,000.  An English sailor, driven ashore by a storm, once took refuge in a monastery on the site of Archangel.  As the result of his visit, an English factory was started there in 1584.  For a long time Archangel was the only seaport of Russia, and became very prosperous.  It still has a very large import and coast trade.  The shortest day here is only three hours and twelve minutes in length, the longest is twenty-one hours and forty-eight minutes.  Archangel also is a province of northern Russia; area, 326,063 square miles; population, 437,800.