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The Republic of Karelia

The Republic of Karelia is a remarkably beautiful land of white nights, boundless forests, and blue lakes. It is located on the border of Western and Eastern Europe, on the border of cultures and religions.
While being one of the North-Western territories of Russia with its Orthodox Christianity, Karelia has always been influenced by Western, in particular Scandinavian countries which affected the culture and the mentality of its inhabitants.
Severe beauty of its nature, the climate, not too favourable in these latitudes, the coexistence and intermingling of various peoples inhabiting this land for centuries, all that conditioned the character of the people living here: very laconic, self-assured, contemplative, and tolerant people. It also accounts for the fact that there is no national strife and terrorism in this land.
The borderline location of Karelia has often brought it to the foreground of major events in European history. But while in old days the land of Karelia often became a subject of international claims and a matter of concern even in Rome, present Karelia as a subject of the Russian Federation with the longest border with EEC is destined to become the economic and cultural bridge between the East and the West.
Karelia is justly called a "national park" in Russia. It was this land that preserved the runes of the Karelian and Finnish epic "Kalevala", as well as numerous ancient Russian epics (“bylinas”). It was this land that preserved the great monuments of wooden architecture, attracting millions of tourists from all over the world.
Present day Karelia is rich in forest, stone, ecologically clean water, flora and fauna, as well as in people living in harmony with the beauty of surrounding nature.
One of the most attractive complexes of traditional Russian architecture is Kizhi. Museum collections consist of 70 monuments of traditional folk architecture including the ensemble of the Kizhi Pogost as well as archaeological monuments, historic settlements within the Kizhi Community. A picturesque lake-shore landscape with signs of centuries-long land use is situated on about 10,000 ha of the territory.

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