January 2, 2010

The motto "Workers of All Countries, Unite!" was represented in 16 languages of Soviet Republics.

December 6, 2009

The century-old desire for freedom waits for to come true now; the Finnish people is stepping foreward as a free nation among the others in the world.

November 23, 2009

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August 31, 2009

In March 1940, as result of the Winter War, the all territory of Ruskeala became Soviet.

August 30, 2009

Lutheran parish in Ruskeala was resumed in 1990.

August 29, 2009

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August 27, 2009

We go into Finland not as combatants, but as friends and liberators, freeing the Finnish people from the clutches of the landowners and capitalists. We are not against the Finnish people but against the Cajander-Erkko government, clutching the Finnish people and provoking war against the USSR.

August 16, 2009

Finland undertakes to demilitarize the Åland Islands, not to fortify them and not to make them available to the armed forces of any other State.

August 15, 2009

The Republic of Finland cedes to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics territory comprising an area of one hundred and seventy-six square kilometres in the region of the Janiskoski hydroelectric power station and Niskakoski control dam on the Paatsjoki river, including the buildings and installations situated in this territory, with the result that this territory shall become part of the State territory of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and that the existing frontier between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of Finland shall be changed in this region.

July 27, 2009

We Don't Want to Fight, But We'll Defend the Soviets! Be on Guard!

July 26, 2009

The Government of the Republic of Finland and the Government of the Russian Federation shall ensure the protection and indefinite right to preservation of, respectively, Russian (Soviet) war cemeteries and graves and memorials in Finland and Finnish war cemeteries and graves and memorials in the Russian Federation. The Contracting Parties shall also undertake to ensure that relatives of the fallen servicemen are able to visit such cemeteries and graves.

July 25, 2009

The Contracting Parties shall develop and expand coöperation in the Murmansk region, the Republic of Karelia, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region in order to promote the stable development of these regions, taking into account the interests of both Contracting Parties.

July 24, 2009

The Parties undertake to maintain the border between them as a border of good-neighbourliness and coöperation in accordance with the Final Act of CSCE, respecting its inviolability and each other's territorial integrity.

July 19, 2009

Soviet postage stamp

June 28, 2009

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June 4, 2009

Kivatch Waterfalls is located on the Suna River, about 60 kilometres from Petrozavodsk.

May 21, 2009

1956

1979. The map of USSR

May 10, 2009

From the date upon which this Treaty shall come into force, a state of war shall cease to exist between the Contracting Powers, and the two Powers shall mutually undertake to maintain, for the future, an attitude of peace and goodwill towards one another.

May 3, 2009

Voenizdat of People's Commissariat of Defense. 1945

1940. Map of USSR

Map of USSR

February 22, 2009

We, Alexander the First, D.G. Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, Grand Duke of Finland, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, do make known: That, Providence having placed Us in possession of the Grand Duchy of Finland...

After having assembled the estates of Finland at a general diet and accepted their oath of allegiance, we desired on this occasion to confirm and ensure by a solemn act, prepared in their presence and proclaimed in our Lord's sanctuary, the preservation of their christian religion and fundamental laws, together with the liberties and rights enjoyed by each estate separately and by all inhabitants of Finland conjointly.

February 2, 2009

The oldest remained image of the coat of arms of Karelia is situated in a series of colour drawings of coats of arms of Swedish provinces in 1562, contained in the Manuscript Collections of Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

January 31, 2009

It follows from these findings that the Soviet Government has violated, not only its special political agreements with Finland, but also Article 12 of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Pact of Paris.

January 25, 2009

Sputnik Agitatora magazine, N2, 1940.

January 23, 2009

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January 12, 2009

No political, military, economic or other considerations may serve as an excuse or justification for the aggression.

January 11, 2009

According to the decision of the Senate from January, 28th has been entrusted to me the honor operate as the commander-in-chief of locally Defence Guards of Finland.

January 3, 2009

The people of Finland, who have always honestly endeavoured to build up their future in mutual understanding with all other nations and on the foundation of peaceful labour, are being ruthlessly attacked by their eastern neighbour without the slightest cause on the part of Finland.

December 29, 2008

Inflamed by a few unscrupulous individuals, some Finnish citizens, supported by foreign bayonets, have risen in rebellion against the Diet and Government of Finland, and by violence prevented it from carrying out its functions, thus endangering the new-found freedom of our country.

December 28, 2008

The present Convention shall constitute an integral part of the Pact of Non-Aggression and Pacific Settlement of Disputes concluded on January 21st, 1932, between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Finland.

December 27, 2008

To the Urals, behind it, are Russians running you hear agile splash of their shoes.

December 26, 2008

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December 25, 2008

In this hour of hard decisions I am impelled to inform you that I have arrived at the conviction that the salvation of my nation makes it my duty to find a means of ending the war.

December 24, 2008

The USSR, with which Finland has maintained good-neighborly relations since the signing of the peace treaty in Tartu in 1920, and with which Finland has signed a non-aggression pact, the validity of which expires only in 1945, suddenly on the morning of Nov. 30 of this year, attacked not only frontier positions, but also open Finnish cities, spreading death and devastation among the civilian population, particularly by attacks from the air.

December 23, 2008

Whereas, by the aggression which it has committed against Finland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has failed to observe not only its special agreements with Finland but also Article 12 of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Pact of Paris; And whereas, immediately before committing that aggression, it denounced, without legal justification, the Treaty of Non-Aggression which it had concluded with Finland in 1932, and which was to remain in force until the end of 1945...

December 22, 2008

The Soviet Union is not in a state of war with Finland and does not threaten the people of Finland with war.

December 21, 2008

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has placed itself outside the League of Nations.

December 20, 2008

The Treaty of Friendship, Coöperation and Mutual Assistance between the Republic of Finland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of 6 April 1948, extended in accordance with the Protocols between the Republic of Finland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of 19 September 1955 and 20 July 1970, 6 shall remain in force for a period of 20 years from the date of the entry into force of this Protocol.

December 19, 2008

The Treaty of friendship, coöperation and mutual assistance of 6 April 1948 between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of Finland shall remain in force for a period of 20 years from the date of the entry into force of this Protocol.

December 18, 2008

The provisions of article 8 concerning the term of the Treaty of Friendship, Coöperation and Mutual Assistance between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of Finland signed at Moscow on 6 April 1948 shall be amended, and this Treaty shall remain in force for twenty years from the date of the entry into force of the present Protocol.

December 17, 2008

Basing on intra-departmental procedures of manpower assigning in 3 month period minister of sovkhoz and minister of timber and paper industry of the KFSSR have to re-allocate already allocated Ingermanlands from frontier regions to inner ones.

December 16, 2008

Notwithstanding the provisions concerning the time-limit and methods of expiry of the Treaty regarding non-aggression and the pacific settlement of disputes, concluded at Helsinki on January 21st, 1932, between Finland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which provisions appear in Article 8 of the said Treaty, that Treaty shall remain in force until December 31st, 1945.

December 15, 2008

The High Contracting Parties mutually guarantee the inviolability of the existing frontiers between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of Finland, as fixed by the Treaty of Peace concluded at Dorpat on October 14th, 1920, which shall remain the firm foundation of their relations, and reciprocally undertake to refrain from any act of aggression directed against each other.

December 14, 2008

What was the meaning of the war that took place in Finland during the past three-odd months?

December 13, 2008

1930

December 12, 2008

In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement in the areas belonging to the Baltic States (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)...

December 11, 2008

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics renounces in favour of the Republic of Finland all rights to the use and administration of the territories and waters which the Republic of Finland first leased to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under article 8 of the Armistice Agreement signed at Moscow on 19 September 1944.

December 10, 2008

The USSR railways shall allow through goods trains of the Finnish railways to use its trackage along the route USSR State frontier-Syväoro-Vartsilä-USSR State frontier.

December 9, 2008

The hostile foreign press asserts that the measures being taken by us are aimed at the seizure or annexation to the USSR. This is malicious slander.

December 8, 2008

Also His Emperor Majesty is pleased to announce that to compensate Finland those following territories would be joined to Finland in due time - sea front territories of Arctic Ocean on the west from Jacob-Elf River at Stolboa Gulf (the issue about that river's water withdrawal to Lapp lands is already raised) or after the proper apportionment and estimation the Sankt-Petersburg gubernia's not used lands locating at the frontiers.

December 7, 2008

The inhabitants of conquered Finland are to be numbered from this time forth amongst the peoples under the sceptre of Russia and with them shall make up the Empire; only the will and resolve of the Almighty can separate them from this great whole.

December 6, 2008

With annexation of New Finland to Russian Empire and supposing that differences between Old and New Finland in naming as well as in governing are unnecessarily and not suitable for this province...

November 25, 2008

Voenizdat of People's Commissariat of Defense. 1943

November 12, 2008

Photos by Timo Raikkerus

August 30, 2008

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August 29, 2008

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August 28, 2008

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August 27, 2008

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August 20, 2008

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June 28, 2008

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June 26, 2008

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June 7, 2008

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July 4, 2007

Lutheran parish in Kemi was formed in 1992.

July 3, 2007

Alexander Talanov. 1956

April 6, 2007

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March 21, 2007

I swear in the name of the Finnish peasant army, whose commander-in-chief I have the honour to be, that I will not sheath my sword before law and order reigns in the land, before all fortresses are in our hands, before the last soldier of Lenin is driven not only from Finland, but from White Sea Karelia as well.

January 24, 2007

We concentrate right now a considerable amount of our best forces in Petrograd region and they will amount in number up to about three divisions and we promptly attack Vyborg and Kexholm in order to, after we fortify ourselves on the very advantageous defense line on Vuoksa Lake and on other lakes as well we would secure Petrograd. At the same time it would really endanger Vyborg itself as well as connection between this city and Serdobol.

January 22, 2007

Some temporary success the imperialists had in Finland.

January 11, 2007

Article by Igor Sergeev

January 6, 2007

Article by Igor Sergeev

December 19, 2006

Almost from the very coast of the Ladoga Lake the bigger part of the inland area along the border of the Olonets gubernia represents the mixture of the hills covered with the forests and the swamps, full of rocks and lakes.

December 2, 2006

In response to the proposal of the Finnish Government concerning the recognition of the independence of the Republic of Finland, the Council of People's Commissars, in full accordance with the principle of the nations right to self-determination, has decided...

November 16, 2006

The effect of the Peace Treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland, concluded in Moscow on the 12th of March, 1940, is restored subject to the changes which follow from the present Agreement.

November 12, 2006

The Vyborg gubernia forms the south-east part of Finland...

October 12, 2006

Great number of Korels live in the Olonets Gubernia; ages ago there were much more of them here, so the whole region was called Karelia.

October 6, 2006

They say that Peter the Great called these people "flying on wooden wings and living on the wood bark".

September 29, 2006

Despite, however, the strong pressure of Russian clericalism and chauvinism, Karelians did not lose their national appearance and national features and did not disappear from face of the earth, as this happened to other Finnish tribes.

September 27, 2006

There were numerous attacks on the Finnish side, but all these did not surpassed minor frontier engagements.

September 24, 2006

The Finns giving up their territory to the Slavs went far to the North and North-West, and called their newly-formed country - Finland. However, some Finns stayed at their places and mingled with the Russian tribes...

1895

June 20, 2006

Marietta Shaginyan. June 1948

June 19, 2006

As you should know, two of the three countries bordering the USSR and having fought against the USSR on the German side, namely Hungary and Romania, had already signed with the USSR the pacts on mutual assistance against possible German aggression.

June 7, 2006

Karelian, korelian are Russified Finnish tribes living in the Northwest Russian Gubernias.

June 2, 2006

In the eventuality of Finland, or the Soviet Union through Finnish territory, becoming the object of an armed attack by Germany or any state allied with the latter, Finland will, true to its obligations as an independent state, fight to repel the attack.

May 30, 2006

The frontiers of Finland shall be those which existed on 1 January 1941.

May 16, 2006

Republic of Karelia

May 15, 2006

Vepsa

May 8, 2006

At about 6 miles from the town of Petrozavodsk on the right shore of the strait connecting the Onego lake with the Logmozero lake on the huge wild rock there rises a nice stone church, build by the merchant Kononov in 1781.

April 25, 2006

Lutheran parish of the village was formed in 1994.

April 11, 2006

Evacuation of the population from this territory was started by the army special detachment in February 5th 1940 beginning with the Hautavaara village and followed as described below.

April 3, 2006

Lutheran churches in Karelia

March 28, 2006

Olonets parish of Ingria Evangelistic-lutheran Church was officially registered in December, 1993, after USSR dissolution.

March 27, 2006

Kondopoga parish of Estonia Evangelistic-lutheran Church was officially registered in 1990.

March 22, 2006

Terveh Petroskoi, 2006

December 28, 2005

Along with the English-French threat of war, there is also a real threat to the region of the Medveshja Gora1 from direction of Finland.

December 26, 2005

The ultimate target is to achieve Lake Saimaa, with establishing the line Sulkava - Nyslott - Serdobol.

November 1, 2005

I am starting the execution of my duties in the moment when our centuries-old enemy has attacked our country again.

October 19, 2005

To oblige the NKVD of the USSR to establish the frontier guard on the new state border between the USSR and Finland.

September 23, 2005

Natalia Petrovna Grot. 1900

September 13, 2005

Peace has been concluded between our country and the Soviet Union, an exacting peace which has ceded to Soviet Russia nearly every battlefield on which you have shed your blood on behalf of everything we hold dear and sacred.

August 28, 2005

The Council of the Peoples Commissars of the Russian Federative Soviet Republic and the Council of the Peoples Representatives of the Finnish Socialist Workers Republic, with the aim of strengthening the friendship and brotherhood between the two aforesaid free Republics, have concluded this treaty.

July 15, 2005

On July 24, 1941 at 8 p.m. the Colonel Bondarev, Commander of 168-th Infantry Division has declared the immediate evacuation for City of Sortavala.

May 2, 2005

From the President of the Republic I have received the following letter...

April 27, 2005

Ivan Tvardovsky. 1996

April 15, 2005

The state frontier between the Republic of Finland and the USSR shall run along a new line in such fashion that there shall be included in the territory of the USSR the entire Karelian Isthmus with the city of Viipuri and Viipuri Bay with its islands, the western and northern shores of Lake Ladoga with the cities of Kexholm and Sortavala and the town of Suojärvi, a number of islands in the Gulf of Finland, the area east of Märkäjärvi with the town of Kuolajärvi, and part of the Rybachi and Sredni peninsulas.

April 6, 2005

Sanitary conditions in the near-border region.

March 29, 2005

Sattuma is a folk music quartet from Petrozavodsk in Russian Karelia.

March 20, 2005

The boundary stone in Pogrankondushi village

March 11, 2005

Orders of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

February 22, 2005

Settlements, industry, commerce.

November 25, 2004

Happily singing Ivan went to war but after come into the Mannerheim Line, the tune changing into more sadly, as we will hear now...

October 18, 2004

Our troops took back the Rahmaasaari Island in the Ladoga Lake.

Yesterday, in June 10th, the troops of the Leningrad Front started the offence on the Karelian Isthmus to the north of Leningrad. With the help of mass strikes of artillery and aviation they have broken through the heavily fortified and deep permanent defence structures of the enemy and during the two days of offence battles moved ahead for 24 kilometres in the 40 kilometres-wide breach.

October 10, 2004

Far away a maiden blossomed lLike an exotic dark-hued flower she was famous for her beauty that pearl of Olonets.

September 16, 2004

The following documents are the legal agreement between you and Andrew Heninen.

August 24, 2004

As the sign of friendship and deep trust of the Soviet Union towards the Finnish Democratic Republic, coming to meet the age-old dream of the Finnish nation about reunification of the Karelian peoples with the Finnish nation in the common independent Finnish state the Soviet Union agrees to hand over to the Finnish Democratic Republic the regions of the Soviet Karelia that are mainly populated by Karelians - 70 000 square kilometres in total - to be included into the national territory of the Finnish Democratic Republic and with setting the border line between the USSR and the Finnish Democratic Republic.

August 22, 2004

Pitkäranta - Sortavala. Road notes. April 1940

August 10, 2004

We're not seeking war, but'll defend ourselves not in vain we had build the defence on the enemy land we will beat him to ground by the powerful blow and small blood.

July 24, 2004

We would not take the palm of land of others but would not let to take the inch from us.

July 14, 2004

For the first time the dirigible appears in the Petrozavodsk sky in July 26th 1931, when German LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin went over the capital of the Karelian ASSR on his way to the North during it's well-known Arctic expedition.

July 7, 2004

The Soviet Karelia is feed by the Red Army from the white gangs which were organised by the Finnish officers on the money of Finnish and other foreign bourgeoisie.

July 5, 2004

For the first time after the conquest of Finland the higher representative of the Russian Empire visited the far, not widely known, might be said - forgotten, Karelian land.

July 1, 2004

Riekkalansaari Island

June 2, 2004

During the The War of Independence in 1918 I stated to the Karelians of Finnish Karelia as well as to those of White Sea Karelia that I shall not give up fighting as long as Finland and Eastern Karelia would not be free.

May 31, 2004

Icebreaker Aallokas was built in Sortavala at Sortavalan Telakka ja Konepaja Oy shipyard in 1936.

May 23, 2004

They stepped from victory to victory and bet like a violent wind, till the intact and wonderful land was left here.

May 13, 2004

The view of the Äänislinna¹ has seriously changed since last year.

May 11, 2004

The inscription and the Pommee Cross were cut on the shore rock near the crossing to the Riekkalansaari Island in 1898.

April 29, 2004

Finnish lake submarine Saukko was specially created for the operations on the Ladoga Lake.

April 28, 2004

Among other things the Finnisation policy meant creating in the AKSSR special national military unit.

February 23, 2004

The set of water-colours with the views of Solomennoye were created in 1933-34 during one of the frequent visits of the artist to Karelia.

February 17, 2004

1874

February 11, 2004

Roads and connections.

January 26, 2004

Olonets Gubernia 1903 memo book

December 24, 2003

Topography of the border and natural phenomeni.

December 1, 2003

Geographic description of the border.

November 7, 2003

Vuottovaara is the highest point on the West Karelian Hills (417.3 metres above sea-level) and is situated approximately at a distance of 30 km from Himola village and approximately in 20 km from Sukkajärvi village, to the east of the road connecting them.

October 29, 2003

The Task of the Ladoga War Flotilla.

Attempts of the Finnish Flotilla to land their diversionary forces on the Ladoga Lake, surface ship and submarine attacks on our lake communications and battle ships are possible.

The Ladoga War Flotilla was established hastily and during the war actions had several accidents. The main reasons for the accidents were the commanders` ignorance of the theatre of operations, their poor navigation training, absence of wartime navigation means and devices.

October 2, 2003

The notes on foundation of Olonets and explanation of the origin of different Karelian words and names of remarkable places

September 20, 2003

In July 1997 in the Sandarmoh woods near the town of Medvezhjegorsk (the 16th km of the Povenets road) the Memorial society expedition headed by Juri Dmitriev found the secret burials of the victims of the mass political repressions of 1937-1938.

One of the clandestine NKVD burials (approximately 350x150 metres in area) is situated in the Krasny Bor wood, 19th km of the Petrozavodsk-Voznesenye road (4 km before Derevyannoe village).

September 19, 2003

On the Ladoha Lake near Pogranichnye Kondushi village of Olonets Uesd nearby the shore line some 10 sazhens from a small granite cape there is a very remarkable red granite stone, laying by itself in the water and called Varashev's Stone.

July 7, 2003

1901

June 28, 2003

Suojärvi

May 17, 2003

Petrozavodsk 1941 - 1944

May 5, 2003

Vocal Group MANOK. 1960 - 1990

April 21, 2003

In March 13th 1959 Kit, loaded with nuclear waists was shallowed nearby Heinäsenmaa Island.

April 10, 2003

The first Soviet military decoration.

February 26, 2003

The Military-Historical Festivals Karelian Borders

February 17, 2003

The border between the Autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and Olonets Gubernia

November 24, 2002

We are coming to help you to punish, to return back your disgrace manyfolded. Meet us Soumi-beauty decorated with transparent lakes.

November 7, 2002

In August 9th 2002 the workers of the Karelian State Regional Studies Museum visited the Kochkonavolok peninsula where a big number of ancient petrogliphs were known.

November 1, 2002

Santtu Karhu & Talvisovat

October 9, 2002

A.Andreev "The Ladoga Lake" (abstracts from the book)

September 26, 2002

The Winter War Monument will be a field clad with natural stones erected in the memory of every soldier died in the battles around Suomussalmi.

May 5, 2002

The first Lutheran church in Petrozavodskaya Sloboda was built in the beginning of XVIII century to serve religious needs of foreign experts that came to build iron mills.

April 14, 2002

In the late autumn 1941 Jussi Rainio was sent to the occupied by Finnish troops Sheltozersky region of Eastern Karelia as an educational officer.

March 31, 2002

First written document that mention "the village on Valakila" (Alakylä) belongs to the end of XV-th century.

January 12, 2002

1910

August 21, 2001

1902

July 11, 2001

"Our aviation successfully attacked military objects of the enemy."

June 13, 2001

The church of St.Nicolas The Wonder-worker in Rantue is situated on the high cape on the western shore of Riekkalansaari Island, about two kilometers from the center of Sortavala town.

June 3, 2001

The ice-breaking tug Aunus was built in Turku shipyard Wm. Crichton & Co Ab in 1900.

May 1, 2001

In 1924 a plywood factory was build and the villages Sieklahti and Lahdenpohja were taken off Jakkima township to create a new Lahdenpohja township.

February 18, 2001

According to Stolbov 1617 Peace Treaty Swedish and Russian border setting ambassadors met in 25th of October on the shore of Ladoga Lake to proceed border marking between Solomenny pogost (circuit) of Korela uezd (district) and Olonets pogost of Novgorod uezd.

February 1, 2001

A cast-iron cross, memorizing the victims of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War (1939-1940) was erected several kilometers off Pitkäranta at the road fork to Petrozavodsk and Suojärvi in July 27-th 2000.

January 10, 2001

The oldest and biggest Mesolithic burying grounds in the Northern Europe was found on the Southern Oleny Island, some 7 kilometers south-east from well-known Kizhi Island.

June 27, 2000

First mentions of Suistamo are met in XVI century. At that time the territory was a part of Sortavala circuit.

May 29, 2000

Lutheran church in Kuikkaniemi village was consecrated in 1892.

Massive copper city gates of Sigtuna were delivered to Novgorod as present or kind of tribute and are still decorating the Western entrance of Veliky Novgorod Saint Sophia Cathedral.

May 3, 2000

Up to now one can see ancient Veps tumuli raising up to three meters and around 12 meters in diameter along Oyat' River.

July 5, 1999

First people arrived to Paanajärvi region in 5-6 millenium BC.

June 6, 1999

Collection

April 15, 1999

For the first time Pitkäranta (Long Beach in translation from Finnish) was mentioned in tax census book of Great Novgorod Veps region for the years 1499-1500.

April 6, 1999

Russian only

March 22, 1999

The cult of the seidas (sacred stones) existed on the whole vast area inhabited by Saami tribes.

March 2, 1999

Article by M.Ju.Dankov

January 12, 1999

Embroidery has a centuries-old history in traditions of Karelian and Veps people.

December 17, 1998

Article from Carelia magazine

October 29, 1998

Just after the Finnish army reached the shores of Lake Ladoga, the rebuilding of the Ladoga Navy started.

October 5, 1998

A Finnish fighter plane, Brewster 239 Buffalo, (hull No BW-372) was found at August 1998 in Big Kolejärvi Lake, about 50 kilometers from the town of Segezha.

August 16, 1998

In 1997 in the historical centre of Petrozavodsk, The City Park, founded by Peter the Great, archaeologists found the station of ancient people dated back to 5-th millennium BC.

August 9, 1998

Photos

July 23, 1998

The earliest written mention about Värtsilä can be found in 1499-1500 tax census book.

June 1, 1998

Karelian birch is a tree with presented by nature amazing pattern of wood that looks like marble.

May 19, 1998

For achievements in construction of communism and for friendship between peoples KASSR was awarded an Order of Lenin, an Order of October Revolution and an Order of Friendship between Peoples.

December 10, 1997

In 1957 while being excavations the birch-bark document on Karelian was discovered in Novgorod.

December 2, 1997

Solomennoye (altered for Salmennoye from the Karelian "salmi" - "strait") is situated on banks of the strait connected the Onego lake bay along Petrozavodsk to the Logmozero lake.

December 1, 1997

The stone labyrinths - complex spirals from crude stones - are on the Baltic, the Barents and the White Sea's coasts. They are on Karelia territory too.

October 17, 1997

The official document of town foundation dates back to 1646.

September 24, 1997

The earliest known us maps of the Europe with drawn name Carelia were composed by Swedish Catholic bishop Olaus Magnus (1490-1558) in XVI century.

July 28, 1997

1918 - 1993

1562 - 1993

July 23, 1997

The breed was formed in wood-zone of Karelia by crossing local Karelian Eskimo dog with Finnish Bird's Eskimo dog and has the smallest size among the all breeds of hound Eskimo dog.

July 14, 1997

There are Karelian figures on crags (petroglifs) - unique stone monuments of New Stone Age (IV-II B.C.) - on the western coast of Onego Lake and in the lower reaches of Vyg river (just before it falls in the White Sea).

July 11, 1997

Before The II World War this unique islet of nature had a reputation for Finnish Switzerland.