Ruskeala where is located. What to see in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Akhvenkoski waterfall: the hero of the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"

Wednesday evening, the first warm weekend is approaching and the age-old question "What to do?" comes to the fore. The answer is obvious - go to desert island! Having quickly found out that buying a small tropical island, which are offered in abundance on the Internet, is beyond the budget for this weekend, we decided to spit on the climate zone and find an island with a free visit;) It turned out that there are many such islands in Ladoga skerries, and that in a place called Lumivaara (which is not far from Landepohya) at the camp site of the same name, you can rent a boat and raid any island you like with the aim of robbing and enslaving it.

The site of the camp site modestly reported that among the attractions nearby, in Ruskeala, are the Marble Quarry (Marble Lake) and the waterfall on the Tokhmajoki River - the same one where the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" was filmed. Remembering the rave reviews of friends about these places, we decided - we are going to Ruskeala, and then we will occupy the island in skerries. For the needs of the trip, a tent, sleeping bags, an ax, bowlers, a flashlight and three cans of stew of different varieties were urgently bought (in order to find out which is the tastiest). We are ready! :)

Go! A little about the road

The long-awaited Saturday morning, the souls bounce and rush forward. The navigator plots a route from St. Petersburg to Ruskeala through Priozersk, but at the same time says that it will take more than 6 hours to travel 300 km. We frivolously decide that the navigator is stupid))

The freshness of the early morning, the sun, while the roads are still empty. The mood is super, we sing songs, laugh)) The road to Priozersk, with the exception of a couple of short sections, is good. But behind Priozersk, post-war asphalt begins, which was never patched up after the bombing. The thought flashes in my head that the navigator is not such a fool;) After 20 km, the remains of the asphalt end and we roll out onto the dirt road with relief. On the border of Karelia, we are met by a beautiful, smooth, like a table, road. However, exactly after 10 km this lure turns (no, not into a pumpkin!) Back into a dirt road, which stretches almost to Landepokhja. I must say that the primer is quite decent and allows you to keep the speed of 60-80 km / h.

Korela fortress

Immediately at the entrance to Priozersk, on the left side (near the tank), there is an earthen fortress called "Korela". Originally built by the Novgorodians, it was later taken over by the Swedes, who invested in this property for a hundred years. After which they were thanked and took the fortress back.

The fortress is known for the fact that both wives of Emelyan Pugachev and his three children were kept in it for 30 years. Such a sad story.

marble quarry

We were lucky and we turned off the road exactly where we needed)) If you drive from St. Petersburg, you need to turn left immediately after the bridge over the Tohmajoki River. After a kilometer and a half, the path led us to the Ruskeala mountain park.

For a couple of minutes we were torn between the desire to eat and the desire to immediately see and touch everything. Curiosity, of course, won, and a couple of livers were sacrificed to the feeling of hunger. And we dived into the beautiful :)

It is difficult to convey in words the magic of warm, sunny spring day, the aroma of resin, the smells of nature that has just awakened, the cries of seagulls echoing from the marble shores, the infinity of space under your feet and the silent admiration of this beauty. Be sure to leave the path and wander along the edge of the cliff, sit on the warm stone slopes and answer the echo of your voice.

old adit

At the northern end of the quarry there is an adit - a deep vertical shaft cut into the rock, at the bottom of which is dusk, cold and blocks of ice. An ideal cellar :) Approximately in the middle of the shaft there is a horizontal passage through which you can get to the bridge. Only a piece of the sky is visible from the bridge, and the sun bypasses this gloomy place.

Failure: Ice Realm

Imagining ourselves as prisoners of the dungeon, we moved towards the mysterious failure, which was formed as a result of the collapse of the vault of one of the underground galleries. When we went down the stairs to the failure, an unusual-looking man called us and offered to go down into the failure on ropes. If you meet this person - immediately agree, it's worth it :) We got a lot of vivid emotions from descending from a 12-meter height and skiing on transparent ice.

As soon as you touch the ice, you enter another world. This world hardly changes... When it's hot in June, there's still ice here. It is quiet and resonant here, the transparent ice a quarter of a meter thick is covered with long cracks. In one of the corners of the cave, ice stalactites and stalagmites grew during the winter. And you can sit on the ice throne, imagining yourself as the Snow Queen :)

Our expedition to the bottom of the failure was not in vain: a thawed frog was found and rescued on the ice, despite its desperate resistance. In the pocket of the jacket, we raised it to the surface and released it into a warm puddle near the Italian quarry))

Waterfall on Tohmajoki

Finish

Tired and hungry, but contented and happy, we traded an uninhabited island in skerries for an uninhabited lawn near a small lake somewhere along the road. The smoke of the campfire, dinner cooked on the fire, and a quiet sunset completed this magical day.

In Karelia, not far from the city of Sortavala, in the village of Ruskeala, on the banks of the Tokhmajoki River, there is mountain park"Ruskeala". The main attraction of this park is the amazingly beautiful marble canyon. The depth of the canyon, which stretches for almost 500 meters in length and 100 meters in width, in some places reaches fifty meters.

Geography and climatic conditions

Karelia is located in the northwest of Russia, on the coast White Sea. Most of the territory of the republic is occupied by a hilly plain. The glacier that retreated to the north at one time had a strong influence on the relief structure of Karelia, forming a large number of moraine ridges, ramparts and ridges.

The climate in Karelia is generally mild, changing from maritime to temperate continental. For Karelia, precipitation is typical throughout the year. a large number precipitation.

Winters are snowy and cold, although frost is rare. Summer in these parts is short, mostly cool. Hot days are extremely rare.

The coldest months of the year are in January and February. July is considered the warmest month in Karelia, the average temperature during this period is +13 -15 degrees, the maximum air temperature can rise to +30 degrees.

Light day in Karelia has a different duration depending on the season. The shortest day is in December - about six hours in the south, four hours - in the Subpolar regions. Somewhere in mid-January, the daylight hours intensively increase, and in June-July the famous “white nights” begin, when the sun shines with almost round knocks.

The first to develop marble quarries in Ruskeala were the Swedes. Then, when these lands were transferred to Russia after successful military operations in the Northern War, the development of marble was suspended for some time. And only in 1769, Empress Catherine II issued a special decree, according to which work in the quarries was restored. The beginning of work on the quarries was associated with the active construction of new palaces and cathedrals in St. Petersburg.

Starting from the 17th century, the Ruskeala marble canyon began to supply different types marble to the capital and other cities of Russia. St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg was faced with marble mined here, and the floors of the Kazan Cathedral were decorated with it. Ruskeala marble was used for the manufacture of window sills and window cladding in the Hermitage, the facade Marble Palace, Winter Palace, Mikhailovsky and Taurida castles. In Soviet times, it was used to decorate the Primorskaya and Ladozhskaya metro stations in Leningrad. The locals are very proud of this.

Ruskeala today

Today, most of the quarries flooded with groundwater and the waters of the Tohmajoki River are no longer used for industrial purposes. The unique nature in combination with the results of human activities have made the canyon one of the most attractive natural attractions of Karelia. Some of the quarries are adapted for visiting tourists, while others continue to supply valuable building material.

Since marble of various colors was previously mined here, the banks of the canyon also acquired various shades. The marble quarries remaining under water differ from each other not only in outline, but also in bizarre shades of water. When you sail on the Marble Lake on a boat or boat, you find yourself in a snow-white, then malachite-green, or even completely black kingdom.

And the water in the lake is so transparent that you can see the bottom at a depth of 10-15 meters. Around there are many grottoes of the most bizarre shapes and shades, which creates a feeling as if you were in a fairyland. This lake trip is one of the most popular excursions among the tourists of Karelia.

No less exciting activity - walking tour along the shores of Marble Lake. Moreover, they are cleared and paths for tourists have already been laid along them. Some places are specially equipped viewing platforms. Tour guides take tourists to the mines and galleries within the walls of the quarry, most of which, unfortunately, was flooded during the Russian-Finnish war. And in the adits and drifts that have survived to this day, you can walk along the routes of the old masters.

Here you can find dry galleries but it is dangerous to go there unaccompanied. Interesting feature adit - the higher the temperature outside, the more deadly cold is felt inside.

One of the grottoes of Marble Lake was named "Musical Grotto" because of its unique acoustic features. in winter the park turns into a bizarre fairy-tale palace shrouded in snow and ice.

Ruskeala waterfalls

Tohmajoki river is one of the most major tributaries Lake Ladoga, its length is almost 40 kilometers. It has many rapids and waterfalls. The largest of them - Ahvenkoski waterfall, located three kilometers from the village of Ruskeala. The name of the waterfall is Finnish, which means “perch threshold”. Among the locals there is also the name "waterfall at the three bridges."

The waterfall is clearly visible from the road passing by the village, and therefore it attracts the attention of tourists. Especially for them, next to the waterfall, there is a parking lot, a recreation area with cozy gazebos and awnings. Once upon a time, the famous bathing scene of the heroine of the famous Soviet film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” was filmed on this waterfall.

Ahvenkoski is a complex that includes four waterfalls about four meters high. This is a favorite place for tourists and fans of active water recreation.

Another waterfall near the village - Ryumyakoski which is not accessible by car. The road there is very swampy, so you have to walk about 200 meters. Once there was a Finnish hydroelectric power station on Ryumyakoski, some of the dilapidated buildings of which have survived to this day.

Behind the village of Ruskeala, where the Tokhmajoki River crosses the road, an amazing picture of another group of water rapids opens before the eyes of the tourist. And, although these waterfalls are not so high, nevertheless, their unique and enchanting beauty cannot leave anyone indifferent.

Ruskeala failure

Ruskeala failure- another attraction of Karelia, it is located on the border of the territories mountain park and the current marble factory. Local residents claim that this ice failure was formed when blasting was carried out in a nearby quarry in the 60s of the last century. The roof of the semi-flooded adits left by the Finns could not stand it and went under water, forming an oval-shaped hole on the surface of about 20 by 30 meters. From here you can go down to the mining center. Once upon a time, the underground zone was connected to the territory of the current mountain park through unflooded adits. But now they are all under the rubble. Inside the sinkhole, especially in its distant parts, the ice does not melt even in the summer.

Lutheran parish

The Lutheran parish in the village of Ruskeala was founded in 1727. wooden building was built by the Finnish architect Anders Fredrik Granstedt in 1834, approved by the famous German architect Johan Carl Ludvig Engel.

The building almost completely burned down during the war in 1941, only fragments of its foundation have survived to this day. The church bell was moved to Stockholm, where it is still kept.

The modern Lutheran parish was founded in 1990, when local residents registered the Church of Ingria. When the church was open small hotel"Papilla".

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Water activities and excursions

divers, especially cave divers, love to train in Marble Lake, swimming in the most remote corners of the quarry. At one time, there were three underground horizons of marble mining here - there is where lovers of underwater travel can roam. After the Finns flooded many mines and adits during the war, a huge amount of equipment remained at the bottom of the canyon, which attracts cave and techno divers in our time.

Amateurs make their routes along the rapids of the Tahmajoki River, from spring to the end of summer. The length of the route is about 2.5 kilometers, along the way there are dams and blockages created by beavers.

Travel company in the city of Sortavala - "Kolmas Karelia" organizes rafting one-two- and three-day itineraries along the local rivers - Janisjoki and Tahmajoki. The tour includes a transfer from Sortavala to the start of the rafting, the cost of which is from 1,500 to 6,500 rubles per person, depending on the duration. Multi-day rafting includes accommodation, meals and various educational excursions to local attractions. The complexity of the routes depends on the preparedness of the tourists.

For inexperienced tourists who want to try their hand at rafting, in the Forest Hotel Vegarus offer a route along the Janisjoki River. The program has two routes to choose from - a length of 7 and 9 kilometers. Rafting takes about 2-2.5 hours. In addition, the program includes a rest at the finish line, where you will be treated to excellent fish soup from local trout. The cost of the tour is from 2,400 rubles per person.

The hotel offers several options for excursions to local attractions. Very interesting trip to a lost village Kinerma It will help you to get acquainted with the culture and history of the local people. In this village there are unique architectural monuments that have been preserved since the 16th century.

Mountain park "Ruskeala" is the main pride of Karelia. It's an amazing combination marble mountains, turquoise lakes and lush greenery. Looking around the surroundings, it is difficult to imagine that a few centuries ago this place was an ordinary adit, where marble was mined under the most difficult conditions.

Prices in the mountain park "Ruskeala" in 2019

• The cost of an individual visit for an adult is 300 rubles per person
• For students - 150 rubles per person
• For schoolchildren - 100 rubles per person
• For participants in the Great Patriotic War, blockade survivors, prisoners of concentration camps and children under 7 years old, admission is free
• For residents of the Sortavala district, a visit to the park will cost 50 rubles per person
• The cost of visiting as part of excursion groups is from 150 rubles for schoolchildren and from 450 rubles for adults

Additional services

From May 1 to October 1, you can rent a boat on Marble Lake (for 1 hour). The cost of the trip is 600 rubles for a four-seater boat.

Diving enthusiasts will have to pay 300 rubles for the opportunity to dive from the pier once.

Tours and routes

For independent tourists There are two types of routes - short and long. You can go to them yourself or in a group of 5-20 people with a guide. The first one will pass along the "Marble Canyon" around the quarry, the second - "The road of mountain masters with a halt" and a visit to the "Italian quarry". It is also possible to go along the route "Underground Ruskeala", which will take about 1 hour.

Residents of St. Petersburg and others major cities can go to sightseeing tour in Ruskeala, having bought a ticket from local tour operators.

All excursions in the Ruskeala mountain park differ from each other in the length of the route (from 1.3 kilometers) and duration (from 1 hour).

Note! All year round the temperature in the adits is kept at + 7 degrees Celsius. Even in summer it is highly recommended to have warm clothes with you. For safety reasons, children under 3 years old are not allowed on the route.

Hotels and recreation centers

In the immediate vicinity of Ruskeala there are many places where you can stay overnight or just relax. One of the nearest recreation centers is "Ruskeala". The complex is located on the shore of the lake, not far from the town of Sortavala, just two kilometers from the famous marble canyon. There are also hotels and guest houses near the park.

points of attraction

The main asset of the park is the combination of marble rocks that come to the surface, with the greenery of the surrounding vegetation and the turquoise of lake water. Marble hills have different colors - white, black, bluish, the colors are constantly alternating, so that the emerging picture seems a bit fantastic.

The water-filled marble quarry in Korelskaya Ruskeala is a lake, over which rise 25-meter marble rocks, going deep under the emerald water. Rows of slender firs rise directly above the marble.

The canyon is made up of rock workings that create amazing arches, marble-columned halls, and caves that are man-made but look natural. Only a small part of them is accessible for human visits. Most of the grottoes are closed for safety reasons and inaccessibility. Some can only be seen by scuba diving.

You can enter the adits dungeon in the northern part of the canyon. Here are the most frequently photographed cliffs - Ivan da Marya and Catherine II. But the most unusual sensations remain from walking along the underground lake on pontoons.

marble quarry in Ruskeala they are also called "Italian quarries", this name came from the first developers of this place. Here you can see smooth cuts of marble, huge stone blocks, a marble pool filled with water, brick kilns.

Ruskeala Mountain Park: Google Panoramas

Middle of the 18th century. Newly proclaimed capital Russian state is developing rapidly. They build palaces, pave squares, lay out parks. St. Petersburg needs marble. Lots and lots of it. Preferably domestic, so that it is inexpensive and not far away.

Catherine II orders to produce " geographical research all around Russia". Soon, rich deposits of white-smoky, like St. Petersburg summer nights, marble were found.

Ruskeala (from the Karelian reskea - “brown, brown”) is a small village in the Northern Ladoga region. It would be easily lost on the map if not for unique nature and glorious history.

For centuries, these lands have been the subject of military disputes. three states and then passed to the Swedes, then to the Finns, then to the Russians. Therefore, the first developers of the Ruskeala marble quarries were the Swedes. They built the first quarries there at the end of the 17th century.

After the end of the Northern War, the Ladoga region remained with Russia, and the Ruskeala canyons came under the jurisdiction of Field Marshal Buturlin. The extraction of marble was temporarily abandoned.

But in 1768, at the suggestion of the local pastor Samuil Alopeus, work began to boil again in Ruskeala. From all sides masons, architects and mining engineers gathered. An inconspicuous border village in just a few years became industrial center. Over the next 50 years, more than 200 thousand tons of marble were mined. Blocks of stone were loaded onto sledges pulled by 80 horses and taken to the pier. There they were transferred to small sailing ships and floated on Lake Ladoga to St. Petersburg.

The second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century can be called the era of Ruskeala marble without exaggeration. This noble ash stone adorned the interiors of many metropolitan objects:

• Orlovsky Gate (Tsarskoye Selo);
• Roman fountains (Peterhof);
• columns of the Gatchina Palace;
• Chesme obelisk (Gatchina);
• facade of the Mikhailovsky Castle and others.

But the most famous building, in the decoration of which Ruskeala marble was used - St. Isaac's Cathedral. The architect Auguste Montferrand personally came to Ruskeala to supervise the breaking of the stone. As a result of the wall St. Isaac's Cathedral lined with beautiful white-gray marble about 50 centimeters thick.

In the second half of the 19th century, marble began to go out of fashion (city architects switched to granite). Active marble mining in Ruskeala has stopped. In 1896, the Finns rented the deposit: they built a marble-lime plant and produced marble chips, and with it, in turn, walls were plastered and floors were poured.

Production closed with the start of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939–1940. The marble quarries were flooded. According to one version - by the Finns, according to another - by Soviet aviation.

After the Great Patriotic War Ruskeala plant resumed work. Its products (lime, crumb, crushed stone) were supplied to 10 republics and 17 regions Soviet Union. Whole marble was practically not mined. The last ones to be faced were Ladozhskaya and Primorskaya stations of the St. Petersburg metro.

In 1998, the Ruskeala marble quarry was included in the list of cultural and historical heritage of Russia as a mining monument of the 18th-20th centuries. The flooded quarries became beautiful emerald lakes. In 2005, a tourist park opened there.

What to see in Ruskeala?

4 kilometers from the village of Ruskeala there is a place that is impossible to pass by when going to the marble quarry. This is the Ruskeala cascade - a chain of four small but picturesque waterfalls.

The Tohmajoki ("mad river") flows into Ladoga lake and has many rapids and rifts, the largest of them form waterfalls. The largest one is called Ahvenkoski, which in Finnish means "perch threshold". To say that the place is beautiful is an understatement. What is worth only the fact that one of the scenes of the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" was filmed there.

This waterfall is clearly visible from the highway leading to Ruskeala. Next to it there is a parking lot, a gazebo and a souvenir shop. Ruskeala waterfalls - perfect place to rest on the way to the mountain park "Ruskeala" and take some photos.

But the pearl of Ruskeala is, of course, marble canyon. It is part of the Ruskeala mountain park (more about it a little later) and is a huge stone bowl filled with bluish-emerald water.

The length of the Marble Canyon is 460 meters, the width is up to 100 meters, the depth in some places reaches 50 meters. This is the very place where they took marble for St. Isaac's Cathedral and other St. Petersburg architectural monuments.

The canyon makes a huge impression! Sheer silvery marble cliffs going deep into clear waters, grottoes and adits - all this creates the feeling that you are in a fairy-tale land, and a dwarf with a pickaxe is about to look out of the mine.

Water is particularly striking. The quarry is fed by clean groundwater, there are no algae at the bottom. Therefore, its transparency reaches 15-18 meters, in some places you can even see the equipment left at the bottom of the quarry.

The Marble Canyon is flooded to the upper underground horizon (there were seven in total: three underground and four above ground).

A horizon is a layer within a rock.

Most of the galleries are under water. Only one of them, in the northwestern part of the mountain park, has remained above the water level and is open to the public. It is believed that the Finns broke through it in the 1930s in order to transport trolleys with marble from mine No. 2. The mine itself is about a third flooded, and ice is visible at its bottom, which does not melt even in summer.

An adit is a horizontal or inclined mine working that has access to the earth's surface.

Another attraction of the Ruskeala mountain park is the Ruskeala failure. This is a collapsed vault of underground workings. According to the recollections of local residents, it was formed in the 1960s after a strong explosion in a quarry. As a result, a huge hole about 30 meters wide was formed on the surface of the earth.

A feature of the failure is its microclimate. In the far parts of the working, the ice never melts, where bizarre icicles hang from the walls. But directly at the site of the failure in the warm season, small lake. Therefore, in order to get deep into the working, you must first go down to the boat on a rope, and then get to the ice “floor” on it. In winter, everything is easier: you immediately descend onto strong ice.

The interesting places in the mountain park "Ruskeala" do not end there. On its territory there is also the so-called italian quarry. Until the 1970s, block marble was mined there according to Italian technology (hence the name) using foreign machines. The color and texture of marble are clearly visible here, and the method of its extraction can be traced. It, like bread, was cut into large layers using wire saws, layer by layer.

Ruskeala sights are a rare symbiosis natural object and industrial museum open sky. Looking at all these beauties, you involuntarily think: "How rich our planet is, how much it can give us."

What to do in Ruskeala?

As already mentioned, in 2005 the Marble Canyon, as well as the Ruskeala failure and the Italian quarry, became part of the Ruskeala mountain park.

The park was created by the efforts of private companies that united, allocated money and put these objects in order. They took out garbage and scrap metal, laid convenient paths, and built viewing platforms. Lighting was carried out along the perimeter of the canyon - now at night the marble rocks shine with multi-colored tints. The only pity is that artistic lighting works only in winter (from November to March) and only on Fridays and Saturdays.

We also created the infrastructure. They built a parking lot, cafes, toilets, souvenir shops and a pier where you can rent a boat. Boat trip along the Marble Canyon is considered the most exciting: you can swim in the grottoes, swim up to the adits and feed the ducks.

But the park offers its visitors a lot of entertainment. Those who like to tickle their nerves will appreciate them:

1. Jump from the 24-meter cliff of the Marble Canyon. Of course, with insurance. Height free fall at the same time it is 8 meters.
2. Passage along the rope bridge: three ropes are stretched across the canyon at a height of 24 meters - you walk one at a time, you hold on to two.
3. Trolls is downhill on a roller along an obliquely stretched rope straight to the surface of Marble Lake.

Another popular pastime in the park is diving. As you remember, the Ruskeala marble canyon has three underwater horizons. Flooded mines, connected by adits, like a mysterious labyrinth. Diving lovers can feel like real explorers and see what is hidden in the ancient quarries.

But perhaps the most exciting adventure in the mountain park is the descent into the abyss. For this you need to have special equipment and permission from the management of the institution. In addition, descent on a rope to a depth of 16 meters is a very risky activity, so it must be done in the presence of professionals. There are guys who organize the descent to the Ruskeala failure. Even if you are not a fan of extreme sports, the views that open up inside the failure are worth it to overcome your fears. In winter, it is like the residence of the Snow Queen! Take a look at this virtual tour and see for yourself.

Of the quieter winter activities - riding huskies (those very fluffy cuties) and taking pictures with them. Also in the park and its surroundings, various recreational activities: concerts, folklore holidays, historical installations, competitions and more.

But at the camp sites you will find not only comfortable beds, barbecues and equipped baths, but also additional entertainment. So, you can rent an ATV and ride around the area, you can buy a jeep tour or go rafting.

Rafting is sports alloy By mountain river on six-, four- or two-seater inflatable vessels.

Rafting is carried out along the Tohmajoki River - you can not only see the Ruskeala waterfalls, but also feel their power.

In a word, you will not be bored in Ruskeala. From this place you will take away a lot of picturesque photos and no less vivid impressions.

How to get to Ruskeala?

The village of Ruskeala is located in the Sortavalsky district of the Republic of Karelia, 37 kilometers from the regional center and 20 kilometers from the Russian-Finnish border. There are three ways to get to the Marble Canyon and other attractions.

By private car

From St. Petersburg, the route runs along the A129 highway, through the cities of Priozersk and Sortavala. Having reached the last one, you need to turn onto the A130 highway. The distance from St. Petersburg to Ruskeala is about 300 kilometers.

From Petrozavodsk to Ruskeala, the M18 highway (another name is R-21) leads first, from which, in the area of ​​​​the city of Pryazha, you need to turn to the villages of Lyaskelya and Helyulya (road M130).

By bus

From Petrozavodsk to Sortavala run every day intercity buses. You can see the schedule. In turn, from Sortavala to Ruskeala can be reached by shuttle bus. Also from Sortavala to the Marble Canyon can be reached by taxi for a few hundred rubles. With a taxi driver, you can agree on the day and time when he will return for you.

By train

Train 350A "St. Petersburg - Kostomuksha" runs from St. Petersburg to the city of Sortavala. 23 hours - and you are there. Too bad the train doesn't run every day. Check out the schedule. How to get from Sortavala to Ruskeala - see above.

It is also possible to get there by train, but you will have to make several transfers.

The railway route is considered the most inconvenient and time-consuming.

Why is it worth seeing Ruskeala?

Because Ruskeala is a beautiful mountain park with a system underground caves, Marble Canyon, waterfalls and recreation centers. This tourist complex where you can spend an active weekend with the whole family at any time.

Marble Canyon is so beautiful that even norwegian fjords. Sheer silvery walls embrace a transparent emerald lake, adits caves can be seen. It seems as if he was in a fairy tale and everything around has special magical properties.

But most importantly, Ruskeala is an industrial monument, through which you can trace the history of mining from the 18th to the 20th century. For centuries, workers with the hardest work have been extracting marble, which adorned luxurious palaces Petersburg.