Do you like real off-road? Karelia is a good place for such practices. We will reach Murmansk and the White and Barents Seas, and then to Nordkapp! Enjoy the adventure of a lifetime – go with us to the Arctic and see what live almost no one in Poland has ever seen.
Trip to Murmansk- through the Kola Peninsula
Beautiful and wild land called Karelia with more lakes than land, the shores of the White Sea and the Barents Sea.We will drive areas that only off-road riders and hunters drive, we will sleep in the wild on the shores of lakes and seas, we will cross the polar circle. Reach with us the Arctic city of Murmansk. We invite you to an off-road adventure in the wildest areas of Europe. We will do it at a time when it will not be easy – it will be wet and hard. That’s the point!
Karelia – Karelia is located in northern Europe, between the White Sea and Finland, in the northwest of the European part of Russia, in the east of the area sometimes referred to as the Inter-Karelian Finland. In the west, Karelia has 723 km. border with Finland. Inside the Russian Federation, the country borders in the south with the Leningrad region and the Vologda region, in the north with the Murmansk region, and in the east with the Archangel region.
Part of the Karelia borders are water reservoirs: the White Sea is in the east of the country (the shoreline in Karelia is 630 km long), in the south – Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. The extent of the country from north to south is 660 km, and from east to west – 424 km. Historically, Karelia covered a slightly larger territory, outside of the territory of the current republic, it also included certain areas that are now part of Finland and Russia proper, and the southern patch of the country, called the Karelian Isthmus, reached the Baltic Sea. About 27,000 rivers and streams flow through the lands of Karelia. The vast majority of waters flow into the White Sea.
Murmansk, the cold port city
Murmansk – our symbolic goal – is a city founded in 1916 as Romanov in Murman (Russian: Романов-на-Мурмане). This name was given in honor of the Romanov dynasty. “Murman” is the Old Russian name of the lands located on the Barents Sea. In 1917, after the February Revolution, the city’s name was changed to Murmansk. In the years 1918-1920 the city was ruled by the Western Allies, who came to the “White” with help. During this period, Polish troops fought against the Bolsheviks around the city. Murmanians, evacuated in mid-1919.
As part of the contract signed with the Third Reich in 1940, Murmansk became the base for German poverty on their way to the Norwegian Sea or the Pacific. The Russians made their port available to Germany to a much greater extent than they did later to the Western Allies. Kriegsmarine could be sure that she would find shelter and friendly docks here. Many Soviet icebreakers helped break German ships on their way to the Pacific. After June 22, 1941, Murmansk was a place where Allied convoys reached with help. During the Cold War, Murmansk was the base of Soviet nuclear submarines, carriers of nuclear cargo. Today it is the home port of the Russian Northern Fleet.