Many enquiries related to Sredny and Rybachy peninsula we get have to do with what’s left of WW2 and Cold War defence lines. Here is some of what we’ve noticed so far without really looking.
Pillboxes like this one are all over the coast of both Sredny and Rybachy
What’s left of the coastal artillery
Garbage stewn around Cape Nemetsky (“German”), the northern-most point of Rybachy
Pillboxes along the west coast of Rybachy:
Coming: info on guided tours around these places.
Getting arrested in a “no foreigner” zone would be the perfect way to end a “Misery” tour.
Just noticed a local news article about a big group of inspectors touring these two peninsulas a few days ago: http://arctic-tv.ru/news/murmanskaya-oblast-arktika/vo-vremya-prirodoohrannogo-reyda-v-pechengskom-rayone-obnaruzhen-boepripas. But the permit takes two months to get 🙁 On returning to Kandalaksha I’ll be checking into what happens to foreigners caught in the “no foreigner” zones.