Refuge

Лисички

RussiaUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Лисички ("Chanterelles/Foxes") in Leningrad Oblast, Vyborg/Priozersk area (northwestern Russia), true elevation ~50 m (the listed 0 m is erroneous and needs correcting). Tourist base or isolated dacha in the forests of the Karelian Isthmus (Karelijsky peresheek), an area historically part of Finland before 1940 (Winter War). Taiga of Scots pine, spruce and birch with glacial lakes. Soviet kolkhoz/sanatorium heritage.

The setting

Leningrad Oblast, Vyborg/Priozersk, northwestern Russia, listed elevation 0 m erroneous, actual ~50 m, Karelian Isthmus formerly Finnish until the 1940 Winter War, taiga of pine/lakes, Soviet sanatorium heritage.