Photos by Leif Lillandt : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

To Victor and Yulia: lillandt@post.utfors.se

Hej.

Kul att se lite knuttekot! /Ducati Sören från Kolsva

Hej! Fina bilder. Jag är webbmaster för ferna.nu, och vill gärna länka till ditt album med MC träffen, hittade bilderna via Google Earth. Kontakata mig gärna på info(at)ferna.se. Hälsningar / Steve

Does the fox look hungry? May be the fox is thinking of going inside my house as the front door is open to see if there might be something to eat?

For those who don't understand Russian: "Here in 1941 ??? the enemy was stopped".

In fact my uncles and their "friends" didn't want to go further east/south east. Now they already were a couple of kilometers beyond the borders of far Karelia.

If they have had a choise, they would have stayed at home. There was no "amusement" at all to stay here in the forests for more than two years.

A border stone. The stone marks the border till 1939 between Finland (Suomi) and USSR. As you see it can be hard to find, but it's not. When coming from Salmi, you have a cell phone (GSM) sender/receiver pylon on the right a couple of hundreds of meters ahead. In the neighbouring house lives a family where the woman speaks Karelian, which is understandable for a Finn. And once upon the time her husband had a motorcycle...

The picture is placed on the map afterwards, so the exact position is impossible to point out.