Arkhangelsk, city and authoritative middle of Arkhangelsk oblast (area), Russia, on the Northern Dvina Waterway, 30 miles (50 km) from the White Ocean. With its rural areas, the city expands for 10 miles along the waterway. Established in 1584 as the braced religious community of the chief heavenly messenger Michael, it was to begin with a harbour of the Russian Realm to conduct exchange with Britain and afterward with other nations. The harbour came to the height of its thriving in the 17th century but hence declined with the establishment of St. Petersburg (1703) and the extreme traditions contribution presented by Diminish, the Incredible to redirect exchange to his unused town. Arkhangelsk afterward resuscitated with the building of a railroad from Moscow in 1898. It is presently the biggest timber-exporting harbour of Russia. It has large-scale timber-processing businesses, counting sawmilling and mash making and papermaking. Shipbuilding and repair are critical. Arkhangelsk is the base for an angling armada and the western end of the Northern Ocean Course. They are establishing the study of disease transmission and of ranger service and an instructors college. Arkhangelsk, too known in English as Lead celestial host and Arkhangelsk, is a city and the authoritative centre of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina close to its exit into the White Ocean. Arkhangelsk was the chief seaport of mediaeval and early present day Russia until 1703, when it was supplanted by the newly-founded Holy Person Petersburg.