Sights Petrozavodsk, Russia

Modern Petrozavodsk - one of the cultural centers of Russia. To services of residents and visitors alike Russian Drama and Music Theater, National Theater of the Republic of Karelia (the leading performances in Finnish, Karelian languages), Creative Youth Theater Workshop, Puppet theater, a philharmonic, 5 museums.

In the vicinity of the city are the first in Russia, founded by Peter I, Marcial Waters Resort, where he successfully treat cardiovascular disease / Located 50 km from Petrozavodsk in the picturesque countryside. Therapeutic factors: mineral nitrogen glandular gidrokarbonatnosulfatnye water (4 wells) and high-quality curative mud. The range of indications for treatment is very wide.

At 60 kilometers from the city there is a children's sanatorium and health complex Kivach; the Kivach Kivach and Reserve, where there are remnant trees, and among them the famous Karelian bereza.Vodopad Kivach - the second largest, after the Rhine, plain waterfall in Europe. Drop height of water is 10,7 m. It is situated on the Suna River in the central part of Karelia. The most famous waterfall in Karelia. In the light hand of GR Derzhavina - the first Olonets governor and an outstanding poet, who dedicated his 1791 ode to the famous "Waterfall", Kivach occupied a prominent place in the work of many poets, artists, writers.

State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve "Kizhi". Located on the eponymous island in Lake Onega, 65 km from Petrozavodsk. The architectural complex of the museum-reserve includes 70 national monuments of wooden architecture of the XV-XX centuries., Whose core is the ensemble of the Kizhi churchyard, which consists of Church of the Transfiguration (1714), Protection Church (1764) and bell (1874). In 1990 the Kizhi churchyard monuments and architectural environment of the decision of the general session of UNESCO included in the UNESCO list of World Cultural and Natural Heritage.