Well, a lot of people tend to miss meeting the inhabitans of the place they are visiting. Some of my very close friends live in Petrozavodsk. They are some of the most hospitable, nice and intelligent people I've ever met! SO wherever you go, don't miss meeting common people!
This is my school - at that time 1964-1972 I learnt on this building... The street called then 'Lososinskaya Naberezhnaya', now the street called 'La Rochelle'.
The waterfall at the place of the former Finnish small hydroelectric power station. Northern Ladoga lake area, several kms from the Russian-Finnish border.
There are many places with beautiful wild nature in Karelia (Petrozavodsk is the capital of the republic of Karelia), as well as places full of history. Suna river is on this foto.