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The program starts at the Petrozavodsk railway station at 08:00.
Arrival in Karelia.
Breakfast in a cafe in the city.
Transfer to the ethnic village of Rubchoila.
Rubchoila is located in the Pryazhinsky district. Karelians have been settling in these places for centuries. Their descendants live here to this day.
Three centuries ago, Rubchoila was a small village of 7 houses, but its population was prosperous. The villagers lived very richly, there was even their own tannery, and the chrome boots of the Rubchoil craftsmen were valued far beyond these places.
Tour of the village.
A master class on cooking the national Karelian dish "kalitka".
Lunch is "like grandma's".
On the way to the base, we will stop at the famous Kivach plain waterfall.
Arrival at the reserve.
Guided tour of the waterfall observation decks and the Nature Museum.
Kivach belongs to the geomorphological monuments of nature of federal rank. The waterfall was the second largest lowland waterfall in Europe (after the Rhine). The water falls in four ledges from a height of 10.7 m.
The first mention of it is found in the scribe's book for 1566: "On the Sun River under the Kivach threshold — tonya."
There are three versions of the origin of the waterfall's name: Russian — from the word "nod", Finnish — from the word kivi (stone), Karelian — from the word kivas (snow mountain). The latter interpretation is the most likely, as it most closely corresponds to a huge boulder, white with foam.
There is a Karelian legend about how Kivach was formed. The sister rivers Sunna and Shuya flowed side by side for a long time, unwilling to part. Sunna gave her sister a more comfortable channel, and she lay down to rest and fell asleep. Upon waking up, Sunna ("dream") discovered that Shuya had run far ahead, and rushed to catch up with her, turning over and crushing rocks and stones. A waterfall appeared in the place of the breakthrough of the largest obstacle.
Accommodation in rooms at the recreation center.
