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Karelia, May 1998

• Olonets - Saleswomen in Olonets speak Karelian, but do not want to be photographed...
• Nurmoylitsy (Olonets district) - One of the Karelian villages that has been well preserved.
• Nurmoylitsy - A house in the village of Nurmoylitsy.
• Nurmoylitsy - The house where the Finnish writer Olavi Paavolainen lived during the war.
• Nurmoylitsy - The village graveyard. Besides the Soviet-type metallic crosses, one can also find traditional wooden ones on the graveyard.
• Alexander of Svir monastery (Lodeynoye pole district of the Leningrad region) used to be one of the centers of the religional life of the Karelians. The monastery was founded in 1484 and actually consists of two monasteries situated close to each other - Troitsa and Preobrazheniye. The first of these houses a mental hospital, the second one was recently re-opened.
• Troitsa monastery of Alexander of Svir - Troitsa church.
• Troitsa monastery of Alexander of Svir - Bell tower (1647-74).
• Preobrazheniye monastery of Alexander of Svir - Preobrazheniye church (finished in 1644). Plastering on the walls of the recently renovated church has already started to fall down...
• Preobrazheniye monastery of Alexander of Svir - The monks still have a lot to do...
• Sheltozero (Veps national county) - Veps ethnographic museum.
• Sheltozero - Veps museum.
• Sheltozero - The founder of the museum Ryurik Lonin.
• Petrozavodsk - Olga Pokornaya, specialist of the commitee on national policy, in the office of the Karelian newspaper Oma mua.
• Petrozavodsk - In the office of Oma mua.
• Petrozavodsk - National theater of the Republic of Karelia.
• Petrozavodsk - Houses on the Lenin street, built in the 1930's by American Finnish emigrees.