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  • ▼Kandalaksha, sort of logical order (617)
    • ►News & events (46)
    • ►Tourist info (10)
    • ►Accommodation (22)
    • ►Food & drink (21)
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    • ►Culture, arts, crafts, sports (66)
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    • ▼Weather & climate (61)
      • And that's why I dragged Pasha onto the mountain
      • Winter sports season is open
      • "White nights" nearly over
      • A water battle in Kandalaksha
      • Another "typical" view
      • Aurora borealis expected in the next few days
      • Babushka by the porch
      • Beginning of Spring in the White Sea
      • Between autumn and winter, between sea and sky
      • Climate and weather
      • Clouds over the White Sea Kandalaksha Bay islands
      • Days becomes shorter but photographers are still optimistic
      • February in Kandalaksha
      • First flower of the year
      • First snow in Kandalaksha
      • First snow in Kandalaksha
      • First snow in Kandalaksha
      • Frozen sea
      • How to capture aurora borealis
      • Hungry bears in berry-less woods
      • Intense hail fell on Kandalaksha today
      • It is amazing how people of the North love their north
      • Kandalaksha weather
      • Kandalaksha, January
      • Kandalaksha. Best photos of October
      • Kola Peninsula seasons calendar
      • Last ice floes in Kandalaksha
      • Lenin under snow
      • Murmansk and area weather
      • Mushroom season is here
      • November in the hills around Kandalaksha
      • Polar night over in Kandalaksha
      • Rebirth of nature. Kandalaksha Bay, the end of May
      • Record snowfalls
      • rp5.ru weather forecast
      • Spring comes to the North. March in the vicinity of Kandalaksha
      • Spring exuinox happened yesterday
      • Spring is here: Two kids off to the sea on an ice floe
      • Summer came to Kandalaksha. Finally!
      • Summer over
      • Sun is back
      • Sunrise and sunset in one act
      • The best photo of May in Kandalaksha
      • The Dacha Phenomenon. A close encounter.
      • The first sign of spring: a mosquito sighted
      • The first sun of January in the mountains near Kandalaksha
      • The last days of September on the south coast of the Kola Peninsula
      • The last floes
      • The May fun
      • The middle of a December day
      • The ugliest night in a long time. Late fall 50% off on all my services.
      • This year's first aurora borealis
      • To those desperate for the sun
      • Two sunny November days
      • Volostnaya hill accessible by foot
      • We've missed the official "summer is here" event on June 12 2014
      • While in Moscow it is snowing
      • While Uncle Pasha is silent...
      • White nights are already here
      • Winter came to Kandalaksha
      • Winter mountains near Kandalaksha
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    • ▼Photos and paintings (54)
      • Winter sports season is open
      • "History of the Murmansk Railroad"
      • "Japan"
      • "To book aurora borealis"
      • 'Been exploring the "Military Town" section of Kandalaksha today
      • A 2016-2017 calendar from the Kola Ecological Center
      • A drive through Kandalaksha's outskirts
      • A gentle romantic rendering of a god of war
      • A new no-words film on the Kandalaksha nature
      • A panoramic photo of Kandalaksha
      • A particularly elegant scarecrow,
      • A truly fortunate walk around Kandalaksha
      • A video of Kandalaksha and area
      • An assortment of Kandalaksha and area paintings
      • An exhibition of areal photos of the Kola Peninsula
      • Beginning of Spring in the White Sea
      • Best Photos of August
      • Between autumn and winter, between sea and sky
      • Charming old photos of Kandalaksha
      • City dump preview
      • Climbed the Volostnaya Hill over Kandalaksha
      • Days becomes shorter but photographers are still optimistic
      • February in Kandalaksha
      • First snow in Kandalaksha
      • Frozen sea
      • Ice invasion
      • It is amazing how people of the North love their north
      • Kandalaksha Aluminum Smelter aerial view
      • Kandalaksha. Best photos of October
      • Kola Peninsula seasons calendar
      • Last ice floes in Kandalaksha
      • Lenin under snow
      • New waterfall between Kandalaksha and Luvenga
      • Polar night over in Kandalaksha
      • Presenting yet another Kandalaksha photographer, Oleg Bleskin
      • Rebirth of nature. Kandalaksha Bay, the end of May
      • Rurik Chemyakin, At 70 degrees North
      • September in the works of photographers from Kandalaksha
      • Some photos from the end of September trip to Kandalaksha by two American gents
      • Sorry Leviathan got taken down by copyright owner but here are other things to look at..
      • Spring comes to the North. March in the vicinity of Kandalaksha
      • The best photo of May in Kandalaksha
      • The essence of Kandalaksha captured on canvas
      • The first sun of January in the mountains near Kandalaksha
      • The invasion of artists to the Ter area of the Kola Peninsula
      • This year's first aurora borealis
      • Three short cute videos of Kandalaksha
      • Two sunny November days
      • While in Moscow it is snowing
      • While Uncle Pasha is silent...
      • White nights are already here
      • Winter came to Kandalaksha
      • Winter mountains near Kandalaksha
      • Winter roads are not only dangerous but darn beautiful
    • ▼Nature (83)
      • And that's why I dragged Pasha onto the mountain
      • "To book aurora borealis"
      • 2018 Northern lights season has started
      • A 2016-2017 calendar from the Kola Ecological Center
      • A Bearded seal
      • A new "wilderness" accommodation offer in the hill overlooking Kandalaksha
      • A new no-words film on the Kandalaksha nature
      • A new waterfall found along the Salla road
      • A review article in English: The White Sea - an Exotic Sea of the Russian North
      • A video of Kandalaksha and area
      • An encounter with Daphne mezereum
      • An exhibition of areal photos of the Kola Peninsula
      • An outcrop of wild animals
      • An owl in town
      • Aurora borealis expected in the next few days
      • Bear den
      • Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus, "sea hare")
      • Bears are out!
      • Bears in the forest by Kandalaksha are to be shot
      • Beginning of Spring in the White Sea
      • Between autumn and winter, between sea and sky
      • Bird watching around (and right in) Kandalaksha
      • Black, white, and pink
      • Book Birding Across the Borders has come out..
      • Climbed the Volostnaya Hill over Kandalaksha
      • Clouds over the White Sea Kandalaksha Bay islands
      • Colours of northern summer
      • Days becomes shorter but photographers are still optimistic
      • Eider pairing in full swing, and first Oister-catchers noticed
      • February in Kandalaksha
      • Films on the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve every Saturday over the summer
      • First flower of the year
      • First snow in Kandalaksha
      • Frogs have thawed out!
      • From our Birdwatching friends
      • Frozen sea
      • Hungry bears in berry-less woods
      • Ice invasion
      • In the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
      • Intense aurora borealis right over Kandalaksha last night
      • Intense hail fell on Kandalaksha today
      • It is amazing how people of the North love their north
      • Just saw a white whale
      • Kandalaksha. Best photos of October
      • Last ice floes in Kandalaksha
      • Lighthouse Foundation collecting funds for the publication of the book on the history of eider ducks and people
      • More insects. This time it's snow fleas.
      • Mosquitoes are out
      • New Murmansk region bird-watching site in English
      • November in the hills around Kandalaksha
      • Paradise for birdwatching
      • Polar night over in Kandalaksha
      • Rurik Chemyakin, At 70 degrees North
      • Salmon fishing season open on the Kola River
      • Seen five White-throated dippers at a time
      • Sorry Leviathan got taken down by copyright owner but here are other things to look at..
      • Spring exuinox happened yesterday
      • Spurge laurel in bloom
      • Summer came to Kandalaksha. Finally!
      • Swimming season opened
      • The Aurora Borealis season is here..
      • The Dacha Phenomenon. A close encounter.
      • The Eider Book is here!!
      • The February miracle
      • The first sign of spring: a mosquito sighted
      • The first sun of January in the mountains near Kandalaksha
      • The last floes
      • The May fun
      • The middle of a December day
      • The ugliest night in a long time. Late fall 50% off on all my services.
      • This year's first aurora borealis
      • Today's Honey agaric catch
      • Two sunny November days
      • Volostnaya hill accessible by foot
      • Water quality in Kandalaksha district said to be OK
      • While in Moscow it is snowing
      • While Uncle Pasha is silent...
      • White nights are already here
      • White nights have come to Murmansk
      • White whales by the canal
      • Wild mushrooms
      • Winter mountains near Kandalaksha
      • Wolf!
    • ►Nature Reserve (29)
    • ►Ugly (40)
    • 1th December. Mist over Kandalaksha bay
    • A brass band by the fountain
    • A documentary about the Kandalaksha nature reserve
    • A German-speaking guide
    • A guide to the Kandalaksha district
    • A mountain top hut
    • A panoramic photo of Kandalaksha
    • A Russia Today film on the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
    • A story from a January 2017 visitor to Kandalaksha
    • A tephophile report
    • A video overview of Kandalaksha
    • An exemplary overview of Kandalaksha and area
    • An interactive map of Kandalaksha
    • Aurora borealis keeps on evading us
    • Baby seals again
    • Bike rental in Kandalaksha
    • Bird colonies documentary
    • Catholics in Kandalaksha
    • Commercial space rental rates
    • Computer and gadget repair
    • Dalnie Zelentsy, Barents Sea. A small overview.
    • Downhill skiing and accommodation near Kandalaksha
    • Free guide in exchange for English. Kandalaksha and area.
    • Getting to Murmansk
    • Hand-picked links related to Kandalaksha, the area, and Kola peninsula
    • Herbarium of the Kandalaksha State Nature Reserve
    • Ice thickness
    • Intro to the Kandalaksha category
    • Kandalaksha Day
    • Kandalaksha from above
    • Kandalaksha Gulf Cup
    • Kandalaksha in December
    • Kandalaksha just got a brewery!
    • Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
    • Kandalaksha, January
    • Kandalaksha. The first days of the new year
    • Kandalakshsky District, the Gateway to the Land of Kola. A new guide.
    • Kola Travel Co.
    • Last days of November
    • Late fall herring expedition. Almost anthropology.
    • Monastery cape or “Japan”
    • More talk about the Kandalaksha to Finland via Salla road
    • Mountain Bike Championships
    • Museum of the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
    • My first job in Kandalaksha
    • Nature reserve photos
    • Nature trails in and near Kandalaksha
    • Night time Kandalaksha
    • Off limits to foreigners
    • One of regular reports on easing entry rules
    • Paragliding over Kandalaksha
    • Rebirth of nature. Kandalaksha Bay, the end of May
    • Site-admin with us again. Almost.
    • Some notes on mailing addresses, telephone codes, and postal codes
    • South Kola
    • Stone labyrinths, one of local attractions
    • The best photo of May in Kandalaksha
    • This site has lost its admin, and Alexandra is now a widow
    • Tonight, on the outskirts of Kandalaksha
    • Traveling on the Kola Peninsula
    • Vegetarianism
    • Winter starts in November
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    • A guide to the Kandalaksha district
    • Barents and White Sea in 10 days
    • Beginning of Spring in the White Sea
    • Community events along the Ter cost of the peninsula for Summer 2016
    • Lighthouse on the edge of the world
    • Nicodemus Lighthouse
    • The Salla Gate Project
    • Uncle Pasha, Tersk coast, last summer
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      • And that's why I dragged Pasha onto the mountain
      • "A Lake in the Sea" film from the "Nature Reserve Format" festival
      • "Attempts to Establish Eider Farms in the USSR and Why These Failed"
      • "Either bring back food, or be food yourself"
      • "Nature and Cultural Inheritance of the White Sea". Chupa, Karelia, July 17-19 2015.
      • "New Life" festival in Teriberka July 11-12
      • "Russian Lapland" tourist cluster in the Lovozero District
      • "To book aurora borealis"
      • 1th December. Mist over Kandalaksha bay
      • 2018 Northern lights season has started
      • A 2016-2017 calendar from the Kola Ecological Center
      • A bear seen near Polarniye Zori
      • A Bearded seal
      • A compilation of sources on Vitishko, Olympic games etc.
      • A conference on natural and cultural inheritance of the White Sea: preservation and development
      • A documentary about the Kandalaksha nature reserve
      • A mountain top hut
      • A new "wilderness" accommodation offer in the hill overlooking Kandalaksha
      • A NEW BOOK: A WILD BIRD AND A CULTURED MAN
      • A new no-words film on the Kandalaksha nature
      • A new waterfall found along the Salla road
      • A public talk on alcohol-producing plants
      • A reminder about July 17-19 conference in Chupa, Karelia
      • A Russia Today film on the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
      • A small mid-October camping trip
      • A video of Kandalaksha and area
      • African suricate found in a snowbank in Murmansk
      • An article on the Eider duck and St. Cuthbert by A. Goryashko just came out
      • An outcrop of wild animals
      • An owl in town
      • Another aurora borealis over Luvenga, 2nd night in a row
      • Another bear scare
      • Another book: Nature and Natural Resources of the Murmansk Region
      • Attention serious birdwatchers: a meeting with one of Russia's top ornithologists V.V. Bianki on Jan. 17 2016
      • Aurora borealis expected in the next few days
      • Aurora borealis in March
      • Aurora borealis keeps on evading us
      • Aurora borealis on the Imandra lake
      • Aurora in Khibiny Mountains
      • Average temperature by month from 1996
      • Baby seals again
      • Ban on wild deer hunting
      • Barents and White Sea in 10 days
      • Barents Tour for Geotourists
      • Bear den
      • Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus, "sea hare")
      • Beginning of Spring in the White Sea
      • Best Photos of August
      • Bird colonies documentary
      • Bird watching
      • Birds of the Murmansk Sea coast of the Kola Peninsula
      • Birdwatching offers on the Kola Peninsula
      • Black, white, and pink
      • Book Birding Across the Borders has come out..
      • Botanic Garden of Petrozavodsk State University
      • Campsite "Golden Bay"
      • Christmas (Orthodox) holidays in Chupa, North Karelia
      • Chupa calls July 2016
      • Climbed the Volostnaya Hill over Kandalaksha
      • Clouds over the White Sea Kandalaksha Bay islands
      • Contrasts of northern nature: butterflies and aurora borealis
      • Dalnie Zelentsy, Barents Sea. A small overview.
      • Day of eared jellyfish
      • Evgeni Vitishko
      • February in Kandalaksha
      • First coat-free day. Summer is here. And so are white nights. Yet still lots of snow.
      • First sunrise after the polar night
      • From our Birdwatching friends
      • Frozen Kolvitsa waterfall in winter
      • Frozen sea
      • Glendonite
      • Hans Schaaning and the history of Pasvik
      • Happy New Year!
      • Herbarium of the Kandalaksha State Nature Reserve
      • Hibiny in February
      • Hibiny this weekend
      • How to capture aurora borealis
      • Hungry bears in berry-less woods
      • I hate gnats!!
      • Ice glaze
      • Ice invasion
      • Ice thickness
      • Imandra Lake tonight
      • In the Khibiny Mountains
      • Intense aurora borealis right over Kandalaksha last night
      • Intense hail fell on Kandalaksha today
      • Invasion of baby seals
      • It's your fault, Norwegians!
      • Just saw a white whale
      • Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
      • Kandalaksha. The first days of the new year
      • Kartesh White Sea Biological station in Chupa
      • Khibiny
      • Khibiny mountains already under snow
      • Kola Peninsula nature overview
      • Kola Peninsula seasons calendar
      • Kuzomen. Arctic horses in polar desert.
      • Last days of November
      • Last night in Kirovsk
      • Last sunrays of the year
      • Last year's snow
      • Letters in support of Evgeny Vitishko
      • Lighthouse Foundation collecting funds for the publication of the book on the history of eider ducks and people
      • Lotta Border Crossing Point closed because of forest fires
      • Lovozero and Seidozero crowd
      • Metsä (Forest) photo exhibition in Murmansk June 2-25 2017
      • Moon in Lovozero last night
      • Moose in heat
      • Moose pulled out of canal near Nivsky
      • More about the Sredny and Rybachy talks
      • More talk about birding
      • Mosquitoes are out
      • Museum of the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
      • Mushroom season is here
      • Nature reserve film festival Jan. 8-10
      • Nature reserve photos
      • Nature trails in and near Kandalaksha
      • New colony of northern gannet in Murmansk region
      • New masterpieces from Valentin Zhiganov
      • New waterfall between Kandalaksha and Luvenga
      • New Year's tour in Chupa, North Karelia
      • Night time Kandalaksha
      • No tigers in the Murmansk Region
      • Now translating the third article for a bird watching project
      • Obutuary on Alexander Koryakin, Science Director of the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
      • Of mites..
      • Off to Kuzomen
      • Off to the hills for the whole day
      • One of the most beautiful lakes in Russia
      • Only birds see Kirovsk that way
      • Our traditional August vacation in Kuzomen has started
      • Paragliding over Kandalaksha
      • Pasvik trilateral nature reserve film in English
      • Petrozavodsk. The Great glaciation
      • Polar Alpine Botanical Gardens
      • Polar night over in Kandalaksha
      • Radiation on Lake Ladoga island in Karelia
      • Realities of local life: the road to Teriberka
      • Rebirth of nature. Kandalaksha Bay, the end of May
      • Record snowfalls
      • Remains of 11 wild deer and 4 mooses found in North Karelia
      • Rurik Chemyakin, At 70 degrees North
      • Season of Polar auroras opened
      • Seen Aurora Borealis with my own eyes
      • Seen five White-throated dippers at a time
      • Sorry Leviathan got taken down by copyright owner but here are other things to look at..
      • Sorting out photos from the recent trip to Kuzomen
      • Spring flooding in Varzuga
      • Spring is here: Two kids off to the sea on an ice floe
      • Sredny and Rybachy Peninsula Nature Reserve
      • Stories about their wildness may have been slightly exaggerated
      • Summer and winter images of Teriberka, where Zvyagintsev's Leviathan was partly filmed and recently shown
      • Summer aurora borealis
      • Swimming season opened
      • Teriberka festival August 12-14
      • The Aurora Borealis season is here..
      • The best month of the year
      • The best photo of May in Kandalaksha
      • The Chupa conference report
      • The day of giant things
      • The Evgeni Vitishko story. Is a boycott of Sochi Olympics brewing?
      • The February miracle
      • The first day of autumn in Luvenga
      • The Kola Planet calendar for 2017-2018
      • The last days of September on the south coast of the Kola Peninsula
      • The last floes
      • The May fun
      • The middle of a December day
      • The northernmost ostriches in the world
      • The pyromania season
      • This season's first mushrooms
      • Thomas W. Knox The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire, 1887
      • Tonight, on the outskirts of Kandalaksha
      • Underwater photographer in Poyakonda
      • Varzuga
      • Vegetarian/vegan picnic in Murmansk
      • Vitishko on hunger strike, friends/family raise funds
      • Vitishko refused amnesty request
      • Volostnaya hill accessible by foot
      • What to do in case of earthquake
      • What to see/do if you are staying in Kandalaksha for 1-3 days
      • While lazies like us are asleep in a warm bed ...
      • White nature of the White Sea
      • White nights have come to Murmansk
      • White whales by the canal
      • Wild mushrooms
      • Winter birds of Kandalaksha
      • Winter holidays on the White Sea in Chupa, Karelia
      • Winter roads are not only dangerous but darn beautiful
      • Winter starts in November
      • Wolf!
      • Yet another trip to Kuzomen
    • ▼Photography & filming (147)
      • And that's why I dragged Pasha onto the mountain
      • Summer in Murmansk
      • "A Lake in the Sea" film from the "Nature Reserve Format" festival
      • "Japan"
      • "To book aurora borealis"
      • 1th December. Mist over Kandalaksha bay
      • A 2016-2017 calendar from the Kola Ecological Center
      • A documentary about the Kandalaksha nature reserve
      • A festival of the North in Lovozero
      • A few photos from the way to Lovozero
      • A film with atmospheric images of Kolvitsa
      • A gentle romantic rendering of a god of war
      • A home base for filming crews
      • A monument to the members of deer transportation batallion
      • A mountain top hut
      • A new no-words film on the Kandalaksha nature
      • A photographer and a makeup artist in Murmansk and Severomorsk
      • A Russia Today film on the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve
      • A video of Kandalaksha and area
      • Aerial photos of Kashkarantsy, Kuzomen, and Varzuga
      • An exhibition of areal photos of the Kola Peninsula
      • An exhibition of old (and ancient) photo cameras in Kandalaksha
      • Another "typical" view
      • Another book: Nature and Natural Resources of the Murmansk Region
      • Another film in Kandalaksha
      • Another hidden treasure of Kandalaksha: The Garkotin Publishing House
      • Another ice thriller movie planned for winter 2014
      • As if polar night and -10F wasn't enough for these weird Russians..
      • Aurora borealis in March
      • Aurora borealis on the Imandra lake
      • Aurora in Khibiny Mountains
      • Baby seals again
      • Bar "Okolitsa"
      • Barents and White Sea in 10 days
      • Beginning of Spring in the White Sea
      • Best Photos of August
      • Bird colonies documentary
      • Birds of the White Sea
      • Botanic Garden of Petrozavodsk State University
      • Colours of northern summer
      • Contrasts of northern nature: butterflies and aurora borealis
      • Crazy Russian closing of winter season - snowboarding in slush
      • Crossing Russian border with serious video equipment
      • Dalnie Zelentsy, Barents Sea. A small overview.
      • Detailed maps and lots of photos at varvar.ru
      • Epiphany bathing
      • February in Kandalaksha
      • Filmed in Kandalaksha
      • Filming locations
      • First sunrise after the polar night
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