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<font style=MS Serif size=3 color=1c86ee><b>The city of Petrozavodsk is the capital of Karelia, a nothern land which serves as a unique example of interaction of two different cultures: Baltic-Finnish and Eastern Slavic, including language, literature, architecture, traditions, and religion.
The reason for that is Karelia's border position: if Russia is a bridge between Europe and Asia, Karelia is definitely a bridge between north-west peoples of Scandinavia and eastern Slavs.
This peculiarity is still felt as you travel through Karelia at least through the signs and shops names in the two languages: Finnish and Russian. Many place names have Finnish ethimology.
Karelia is full of historical and cultural heritage important both for Finns and Russians, including epic poems of Kalevala, wonderful masterpieces of Russian wooden architecture, prehistorical petroglyphs... Karelia includes such famous places as Valaam, Olonets (a ancient nothern town), Kizhi, Solovki (see my 'Russia' page).
Karelia's nature is gorgeous. Numerous lakes, rocky hills, waterfalls, virgin forests... Two largest European lakes (Onego and Ladoga) are in Karelia.
The city of Petrozavodsk began in the years of Peter the Great. The city got its name after some industrial plants that were started in that area by Peter.
Kizhi is an island on Lake Onego, famous for its wooden architecture.
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