Ladoga

Ladoga - log rafts on Peter I Canal (Prokudin-Gorskii again)

Towpath bridge between Ladoga and Onega (Prokudin-Gorskii)

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…

I'm opening a thread here about the boats and building traditions in my country. We have -- rivers in the north, thousands of lakes, big and small, in the interior, a long coastline, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea - and we had much of Ladoga, those boats belonging to the tradition. Starting here from the north, of the river boats, as we call them - long and narrow, very shallow going, up and down in currents and rapids. I lived almost 40 years in Lapland, much…