Webcam Sortavala. Oktyabrskaya Street (Karelia) online
Sortavala is a cozy old town in Karelia, located 270 kilometers to the west of St. Petersburg, on the shore of the Ladoga River, near the Finnish border. The city has the status of the administrative center of the vast Sortavala urban settlement, which includes a number of nearby islands.
In recent decades this picturesque region of Russia has become popular among tourists, and in the summer period the number of travelers coming here far exceeds the number of citizens, of whom there are only about twenty thousand in Sortavala. Beautiful ancient architecture, picturesque surroundings, and a favorable climate allow Sortavala to compete with Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, for the palm of the pack in the sphere of tourism.
The centuries-old chronicle of the city is rich in events, which influenced the destinies of the people of northern European countries, which allowed experts to include Sortavala in the list of historical cities of Russia. Mountainous landscape, panoramas of Ladoga lake and coastal islands, streets built up with ancient buildings, mild Karelian climate attract more and more travelers from Russian regions and Scandinavian countries to Sortavala. Sortavala is surrounded by natural and cultural reserves, the most famous of which are the Ladoga skerries and the Valaam Island with its ancient Orthodox monasteries.
