Karelia

• The server in Petrozavodsk State University presents several beautiful photos of Karelia: about Petrozavodsk city, Onego lake and Karelian wilderness. All pictures accessible via this link are maintened on the "Friends and Partners" server. (C) Copyrights 1995 Petrozavodsk State University. Please send comments to Dmitri Bosenko: webmaster@mainpgu.karelia.ru )
• The Beauty of Russian North, the slide show by Andrey Sebrant (asebrant@glas.apc.org). The exhibition maintained by "Friends and Partners" server contains 9 small inline GIF images. That server provides also Russian version of the same collection of photos.
• Vorenja, a village among the lakes (almost 1,000 miles north-north-west from Moscow, 35 deg. 14 min. E, 63 deg. 53 min. N). Andrei Sebrant's exciting travelogue of the trip to the almost extinct village (11 permanent residents) on the banks of the small Suma river in Karelian taiga.
• The island of Kizhi on Onega Lake (Karelia). The museum of wooden architecture. This resource is maintained by Vladimir Pekkel (pekkel@uthscsa.edu ).
• Tours around national park Vodlozero (the Vodl Lake) are presented by Matti Pellinen (matti.pellinen@hut.fi) from Helsinki, Finland (slow connection). The park occupies 500,000 hectares shared by two regions of Russia: the Republic of Karelia and the Arkhangelsk region. The Vodl Lake is situated 50 km to the east from the Onega Lake. More information about this national park is available from the unofficial Vodlozero page constructed by Matti Pellinen.
• Detailed description of the Vodlozero National Park (hiking, camping, backpacking and so on) is provided by Stephen Johns Backcountry server (comments: johns@swri.edu).
• Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences. This server includes documents with information about research activities in Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia. Send comments to Alexandr Veretin: root@alex.krc.karelia.ru

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