Kirillovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast and borders with Kargopolsky and Konoshsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north, Vozhegodsky and Ust-Kubinsky Districts in the east, Vologodsky District in the southeast, Sheksninsky District in the south, Cherepovetsky District in the southeast, Belozersky and Vashkinsky Districts in the west, and with Vytegorsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 5,400 square kilometers (2,100 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kirillov. Population: 15,877 (2010 Russian census); 18,627 ; 21,702 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Kirillov accounts for 48.7% of the district's total population.
The mouth of Sviyaga River, Lake Siverskoye
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, as seen from Lake Siverskoye
The St. Iliya Church of the Tsypin Pogost
Kargopolsky District is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kargopolsky Municipal District. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders with Plesetsky District in the north, Nyandomsky District in the northeast, Konoshsky District in the east, Kirillovsky District of Vologda Oblast in the south, Vytegorsky District, also of Vologda Oblast, in the southwest, and with Pudozhsky District of the Republic of Karelia in the northwest. The area of the district is 10,127 square kilometers (3,910 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kargopol. Population: 18,466 (2010 Russian census); 21,514 (2002 Census); 24,589 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Kargopol accounts for 55.3% of the district's total population.
Primary school in the village of Gavrilovskaya in Kargopolsky District
The village of Niz in winter
The Saunino Pogost: the wooden church of St. John Chrysostom (1665) with bell tower
The painted ceiling of the St. Michael church in Arkhangelo