Experts named promising locations for tourists in Karelia

During the May holidays, about 100 thousand people visited Karelia. For comparison, last year there were about 80 thousand tourists. The main tourist flow was distributed among the main Karelian locations: Ladoga, Kizhi, Valaam. However, according to experts, there are many objects in the republic that are capable of attracting the attention of guests no less than traditional sights in the near future.

New mountain parks and healing springs

According to Anton Yushko, chairman of the Commission for Eco-Efficient Tourism of the Leningrad Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, there are a sufficient number of objects in the republic that could become mountain parks or similar projects in the near future.

“In Tivdia (Kondopozhsky district), a project is being developed similar to the Ruskeala mountain park - White Mountain. Tivdia marble is fabulously beautiful; it is used to line the walls of the large hall of the Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg. The place of its extraction is comparable in historical depth to the Ruskeala mountain park. There is an enthusiast there and he is ready to receive thousands of tourists during the season,” Anton Yushko told RBC Karelia.

Of other potentially interesting locations, he noted Yuven Island in the Pitkyaranta region: “This island is one big quarry, amazingly beautiful gray-blue Yuven marble was mined there.”

In addition, the expert singled out an abandoned mine of the Tulomazersky plant near the village of Kolatselga (Pryazha district). “Potentially, this is also a very interesting and promising tourist area,” Yushko added.

The expert also said that the launched White Bridges project made people pay attention to the waterfalls in the Northern Ladoga region. The concept of a large waterfall tour has already been formed, which covers the Pitkyaranta and Lahdenpokh regions. As Anton Yushko clarified, “this season investors are going to organize an eco-trail there, following the example of the one that operates to the Ahvenkoski waterfalls.”

According to the project manager of the Social Tourism Development Center of the Republic of Karelia, Dmitry Bobrov, “there are objects in Karelia that, in principle, have not been studied for involvement in tourism. Not “to see”, but from the point of view of a qualitative breakthrough.” We are talking about both objects of natural origin and anthropogenic.

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“Everyone knows that Marcial Waters is the first Russian resort, but on the territory of Zaonezhie there are dozens of springs that have some kind of healing properties. Some of them are located directly along the route to Kizhi, for example, Tsaritsyn Klyuch. Where, according to legend, the nun Martha, the mother of the first Russian Tsar Mikhail Romanov, served her exile and was treated from this source. Its healing properties have been documented. Next - the source of "Salt Pit". Mineralized water, which can be used for certain diseases. So far, no one thought that Zaonezhye could become some kind of water resort, because this issue has not even been studied,” said Dmitry Bobrov.

Industrial tourism can open the republic from a little-known side

The topic of industrial tourism, which has been periodically raised by the authorities in recent years, may very soon become one of the main industry drivers.

“I predict that industrial tourism will develop in Karelia. This does not mean that we only go to the factory and hydroelectric power plant, although such individual tours are being revived thanks to NordHydro. But I'm talking about industrial tourism according to the Ruskeala principle. We are taking an abandoned mine and turning it into a tourist attraction. And such places associated with mining in Karelia have accumulated dozens over 300 years. Yes, Ruskeala has become the most successful of them. Thanks to the initiative of the DIRECTOR and owner of the park Alexander Artemiev. The problem is that other territories have very few or no such enthusiasts,” says Anton Yushko.

Dmitry Bobrov also agrees with the fact that industrial tourism has good prospects in Karelia, who said that the Center for the Development of Social Tourism has developed programs for visiting enterprises of the republic, primarily for high school students.

Earlier, the HEAD of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov and experts named the main directions and problems for the development of tourism in the republic, which this year is preparing to receive a million people as guests.