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Northernmost mill to be restored in Arkhangelsk Region

The Kimzha non-governmental organization in Arkhangelsk will restore one of the world’s northernmost mills in 2019

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. The Kimzha non-governmental organization in Arkhangelsk will restore in 2019, using money from a presidential grant, one of the world’s northernmost mills in the Pogorelets village (the Arkhangelsk Region), the Northern Mills project’s head, Anna Kryuchkova, told TASS on Monday.

The project was among winners of the competition for presidential grants in the nomination "Keeping the Historic Memories." The organization will receive more than two million rubles ($29,600) to organize in 2019 an international volunteer center in the Kimzha village and to restore a mill in the Pogorelets village. Experts say the mill now is in a very poor condition.

"Under this project, we shall try to preserve the mill in Pogorelets, which is not far from the Kimzha village - those are the world’s northernmost mills," the project’s leader said. "The northernmost mills are four: two of them are in Pogorelets and two in Kimzha."

"The mill, we are trying to reconstruct, is on the Mezen River," she continued. "Its condition is very poor."

"We shall attract to the mill’s reconstruction specialists from the Netherlands, as that country has continuing mill businesses," she said. "We shall not only restore the mills, we shall establish the Russian Mills organization, which will be involved in keeping mills - for that we shall attract volunteers and museum specialists from across the country."

About 25 mills remain in the Arkhangelsk Region. All of them are the cultural heritage objects.