Kizhi Island
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![The ensemble of wooden architecture in Kizhi - a memorial 3-ruble coin of the Central Bank of Russia (1995).](/Images/godic/202501/22/RR5111-0028R1932.gif")
![Chapel of the Archangel Michael](/Images/godic/202501/22/Kischi_Kapelle1932.jpg")
Kizhi (Russian:Ки́жи;IPA: [ˈkʲiʐɨ], Karelian:Kiži) is an island near the geometrical center of the Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia (Medvezhyegorsky District), Russia. It is elongated from north to south and is about 6 km long, 1 km wide and is about 68 km away from the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk.