BELFRY 
  1834
  
  in  the  village  of  Nyonox
  Archangelsk Region
  Coast of the White Sea
  
  A large village of Nyonox which has been famous for its salt-mines is located 100 kilometers off Archangelsk, 4 kilometers off the White Sea on the Summer Shore. First records of the church parish of Nyonox date back to the XVI century. From ancient times parish churches were erected on a hill in the middle of the village.
      They succeeded one another during the last centuries. An architectural ensemble of three wooden monuments is still found here so far: the Church of the Trinity Life-Giving (without a heating system) with two chapels (1727-1730), the Nikolskaya Church with a refectory (with a heating system) (1763) and the Belfry (1834) between them.
   
  The existing Belfry was built in the place of a previous belfry "using fit wood from the previous one" "An Archangel middle class representative, Vasily Zaborshikov was in charge of the construction" The Belfry was built according to the drawings  of "layout and facade" made by the land surveyor Yusupov " matching the previous ancient belfry" of the XVII century.
   The structure is based upon a wooden framework "octagon emerging from a lower cube" widely spread in the North as a belfry structure since the XVII century.  However, framework finishing and its decoration with the exterior planking is made as imitation of stone style architecture as it was prescribed in the XIX century by official church authorities.
        "Architectural-and-Restoration Center of
   A. Popov" began to work on the belfry in 1989. By this time the monument was in the emergency condition.
  
  The whole building heeled over the eastern side:
  central post deviation from the vertical axis exceeded 150 cm; the head came off the drum by 40 cm.
      In view of this, the Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the RF which was set up to monitor restoration of wooden Nyonox monuments recommended that the work shall be done after complete disassembly of the belfry, thus ensuring, firstly, adequate replacement of fully damaged strength bearing components, secondly, restoration of lost, although  structurally indispensable components specified in the documents.
  In the process of restoration all original architectural-and-constructive components of the monuments which have not lost their strength were preserved.
  
  The following components have been restored: the water removing roof with water way under the floor of the bell tier, construction and form of the dome curve -pieces and an octagon (neck) below the dome; a porch; details of planing; color of painting.
  
      The framework was restored with tools and in accordance with technologies similar to those used in the XVIII century, and the bell tier, the dome  and planking were restored in compliance with the XIX century technologies.  During  restoration there were used mechanisms and devices identical to those used during the construction: manual hoist, winch with a load lifting block, log slope, etc. All work was finished in 1993.