The Wooden Churches of Kizhi Pogost

The Kizhi Pogost was built without using a single nail.

Kizhi Pogost sits on a hill above Lake Onega.

Scots pine logs about 30 centimeters wide form the structure.

The Church of the Transfiguration holds 22 domes covered in aspen.

Workers laid the altar of the Transfiguration Church June 6, 1714.

Approximately 180,000 nails secure 60,000 roof shingles on the domes.

The 4-level iconostasis inside contains 102 icons from three periods.

The Church of the Intercession serves as a heated winter church.

The Intercession Church was rebuilt with 9 domes in 1764.

The bell-tower stands 30 meters tall on a square frame.

Restoration specialists numbered every beam before carefully dismantling the church.

New pine wood replaced only elements more than 50 percent destroyed.

UNESCO added Kizhi Pogost to the World Heritage list in 1990.