The road ends in Kuzomen. This trip by our friend and colleague, local history expert Gennady Alexandrov, was beyond any semblance of a road, which makes me want to share it with you.
Chapoma and Pulonga are marked with red arrows.
The trip starts with hiring a heavy truck and crossing the Varzuga River:
100-something kilometers of a gruelling non-road, and you’ll find yourself in Chapoma. more >>
“The White Sea, now the only inland sea in Russia, is a semiclosed basin connected with the Barents Sea through Gorlo and Voronka. Voronka and the Mezen Bay are also assigned to the White Sea. The geographic bound ary of the White and Barents seas passes along the line Svyatoi Nos Cape – Kanin Nos Cape.
Throughout the ages the White Sea have played an important role in economy of the North and North West of Russia. Many important events and stages in formation of Russia as a sea-power are associated with the White Sea”.
An article, in English, about the White Sea and scientific research on the White Sea, by A. P. Alekseev and V. G. Kulachkova “The White Sea – an Exotic Sea of the Russian North” (PDF: Alekseev_Kulachkova_The White Sea – an Exotic Sea of the Russian North_1999)
White Sea in late November. Photo by Gennady Alexandrov
The new film, entitled “This Cold North”, was shot by our friend and colleague, a biologist, photographer, and local history expert Gennady Alexandrov back in 1996 but just was released now. The focus of it is the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve..
While the vast number of searches taking visitors to my www.kandalaksha.su remain unknown (only one out of about 16 shows), here is a summary of known search words/phrases that took visitors to my site during the last year:
| Search | Views |
|---|---|
| kandalaksha | 23 |
| newcomb mott | 7 |
| saami | 7 |
| prostitute petrozavodsk | 5 |
| teriberka | 4 |
| hand grenade | 4 |
| salla border camp contect number | 4 |
| kandalaksha.su | 4 |
| watch leviathan with english subtitle | 3 |
| kirkenes to murmansk | 3 |
| finnish cultural expo at petrozavodsk nov 2016 | 3 |
| stone flower apatity | 3 |
| murmask city indian culture festivals | 3 |
| olenegorsk | 3 |
| british cemetery murmansk | 2 |
| murmansk brides | 2 |
| seidozero | 2 |
| murmansk teriberka distance | 2 |
| rp5.ru | 2 |
| https://kandalaksha.su/yet-another-report-of-a-criminal-charge-for-fictional-registration/ | 2 |
| julia myrzik | 2 |
| aleksey golenkevich | 2 |
| watanabe haruhisa bicycle | 2 |
| vodka free | 2 |
| jogge murmansk | 2 |
| newcombe mott | 2 |
| rent a dacha in moscow | 2 |
| birds of kola peninsula | 2 |
| kandalaksha murmansk russia | 2 |
| camper parking murmansk | 2 |
| monchegorsk, ru news | 2 |
| new de kandalaksha 2016 | 2 |
| cortana hot | 2 |
| alcohol free vodka | 2 |
| newcome mott | 1 |
| leviathan russian film with english subtitles | 1 |
| kandalaksha finland border | 1 |
| motel pomor tur kandalaksha | 1 |
| kandalaksha beluga | 1 |
| alcohol vodka | 1 |
| dacha for rent in ryazan | 1 |
| haruhisa watanabe murmansk | 1 |
| левиафан watch online with english subtitles | 1 |
| сноумобайл мурман | 1 |
| watch leviathan 2014 online english subtitles | 1 |
| salla border crossing | 1 |
| birds in colorado winter | 1 |
| сталин в хибинах | 1 |
| murmansk luvenga | 1 |
| kanozero | 1 |
| crawl under legs | 1 |
| new york times кандалакше | 1 |
| zarechensk otel | 1 |
| solovki island in winter | 1 |
| travel from kandalaksha to salla | 1 |
| semalt expert | 1 |
| puromisterio | 1 |
| ” newcomb mott” | 1 |
| murmansk ferry | 1 |
| greenwich hotel murmansk | 1 |
| severomorsk city | 1 |
| ww.beutiful kola ru gora.com | 1 |
| gagarin museum murmansk | 1 |
| prostitud in kandalaskha in russia | 1 |
| leviathan watch in english | 1 |
| borisoglebsk | 1 |
| camping in murmansk | 1 |
| watanabe haruhisa | 1 |
| stalin statue | 1 |
| kirovsk railway station | 1 |
| murmansk prostitution | 1 |
| varzuga | 1 |
| revda elegant | 1 |
| newcomb mott skafferhullet | 1 |
| trunkovsky aleandr | 1 |
| anna mikhailova 2014 | 1 |
| 28.5.2016 varzuga | 1 |
| russian mega project | 1 |
| ferry kem solovki | 1 |
| scammer michael horan | 1 |
| game.kandalaksha | 1 |
| visa registration russia | 1 |
| lake in northwest russia giant myth | 1 |
| prostitutes murmansk | 1 |
| lovozero train station | 1 |
| левиафан english subtitles online | 1 |
| ferge kirkenes murmansk | 1 |
| map of alexandrov | 1 |
| birds of the whitesea | 1 |
| murmansk off limit foreigners | 1 |
| ferry to murmansk | 1 |
| murmansk ferry from | 1 |
| border crossing in salla. | 1 |
| saami russian | 1 |
| kashkarantsy | 1 |
| petrozavodsk prostitutes | 1 |
| гест хаус алакуртти | 1 |
| apatity | 1 |
| dacha for rent st petersburg | 1 |
| кандалакша макдональдс | 1 |
| dacha rent in moscow russia | 1 |
| rybachy peninsula ooen foreigners | 1 |
| steam engines in louisiana | 1 |
| rybachy | 1 |
| rent dacha near moscow | 1 |
| kandalaksha russia | 1 |
| kandalaksha military | 1 |
| axe murder | 1 |
| buran snowmobile | 1 |
| kandalaksha mountains | 1 |
| pulonga | 1 |
| паром кандалакша соловки | 1 |
| epiphany murmansk | 1 |
| handgrenade | 1 |
| russian brothel murmansk | 1 |
| diving equipment +finland | 1 |
| ugly police | 1 |
| prostitution in kandalaksha | 1 |
| hotel accommodation cards rates | 1 |
| yacht belomorsk | 1 |
| ferry murmansk | 1 |
| a few photos from musta-tunturi and sredni | 1 |
| ryrik chemyakin at70 north | 1 |
| kandalaksha.history and attractions | 1 |
| sredny peninsula | 1 |
| watercolours moscow | 1 |
| ponoj | 1 |
| haruhisa watanabe | 1 |
| flyviking norway | 1 |
| avia crash | 1 |
| teriberka hotel | 1 |
| https://kandalaksha.su/new-winter-tour-on-the-solovetsky-islands/ | 1 |
| solovetsky snowmobile | 1 |
| hare krishna saint petersburg | 1 |
| president of sos childrens village s. kaul | 1 |
| olenya air base | 1 |
| lovozero shopping | 1 |
| dacha rent moscow | 1 |
| kandalaksha town | 1 |
| murmansk city from india | 1 |
| crow on head | 1 |
| mcdonalds murmansk | 1 |
| kozulya cookie karelia | 1 |
| hand gernade | 1 |
| kola kopeikin | 1 |
| kandalaksh, russia | 1 |
| google maps kandalksha water temperature | 1 |
| apatity stone flower 2017 | 1 |
| murmansk oblast woman photo | 1 |
| 2017 ma tole kola | 1 |
| reindeer boots lovozero | 1 |
| siddhartha kaul | 1 |
| renting a datcha for 3 monthe inkostroma | 1 |
| ferry oslo to murmansk | 1 |
| monchegorsk prostitutes | 1 |
| Unknown search terms | 4,381 |
Glad to see that prostitution is not an unconditional leader the way it was towards the end of my Moscow phase.
This photo is by Gennady Alexandrov. The rest is by Alexandra.
Yesterday my mate Alexandra took me to Kolvitsa to see one of local natural attractions, the waterfall on the Kolvitsa river. Although I am at a bit of a loss as to the point of dragging one’s ass through two miles of snow to see some bubbling water framed by ice, I am, after all, in the tourism business, so I put up but minimal resistance and ended up seeing the views I’m about to share. Here:
..is held from Dec. 12 to 30 2015 in the Kandalaksha City Museum at ulitsa Pervomayskaya 40. Artists and artisans wishing to participate are invited to apply before Dec. 4 2015. Contacct Anna Alexandrovna Goryacheva at +7 81533 94407.
An exhibition to present the Murmansk region and other arctic areas of Russia is happening in Murmansk from Nov. 17 to 19. There will be Murmansk region municipalities, joint booths of Russian arctic areas and foreign countries, and presentations by major industrial enterprises active in the Arctic.The event’s organizers hope that the exhibition will be one of key events during the Murmansk International Business Week, and will be noticed by both residents and guests of the region.
Adapted from http://regnum.ru/news/society/1944466.html
I can visit the exhibition on your behalf or even man your booth there. Talk to me.
For more info or to arrange your participation contact Zoya Alexandrovna Efimova, the coordinator of Artcit Territory exhibition, Ministry of Economic Developmenet of the Murmansk Region, Section of Congresses, Exhibitions, and International Cooperation.. tel. +7 8152 486 419, e-mail efimova@gov-murman.ru.
Now, closer to home, our birdwatching friend Evgeny Potorochin of MurmanBirds is participating in the event with his presentation of birdwatching tourism development plan. A condensed version of it is to appear on kandalaksha.su shortly.
Kolvitsa in winter and early spring, by Ivar Johansson and Gennady Alexandrov:
A scientific and practical conference “Nature and Cultural Inheritance of the White Sea: Perspectives of Preservation and Development” is going to be held from July 17 to July 19 2015 on the Vershinny Peninsula in the Village of Chupa, Karelia.
Organized by the “Basin Council of North Karelian Coast” with support from the Lighthouse Foundation international fund and International Fund for Animal Welfare.
Here is the preliminary program of the event:
