In September at the end of the tourist season poet Alexandre Volkov with a group came to the Park and exclaimed: ‘What a wonderful place!’ Later he sent us a letter with his impressions in verse. With his permission we posted his verses devoted to Paanajarvi on the web-site.

Republican competition of young researchers “Horizons of discoveries” was held on 28-29 November 2013 in Petrozavodsk in the premises of the Republican children ecological-biological centre named after K.A.Andreev.

Former inhabitants of the old Karelian villages from Paanajarvi area got together in the Park’s visitor centre on February 9, 2014. These villages are no longer on the maps, but the memories, pictures and documents cherished in the families help to visualize how they looked in the past and what people used to live there.

The beauty of pristine nature of Paanajarvi is enchanting while the harshness of climate is adding something of the extreme. Absence of everyday hustle, whiteness of sparkling snow, crackling of burning firewood, evening with candlelight – all this becomes a reality. In our land winter will be reigning for a long time yet, which means that up till April there is a chance to visit the fairytale Paanajarvi forest. The winter fairytale continues and we welcome all the fans of this beautiful season.

In general it was a successful year for the Park: it is developing well and fulfills all its main tasks. The number of visitors of the Park stably grows: in 2013 5518 people came to the Park in 1079 groups of different composition. Among them there were citizens of Karelia, Russian Federation, CIS and foreign countries.

On the 12th of November in Kuusamo there was held a seminar «New Paanajarvi». The seminar was organized by Kuusamo municipality, Oulu and Lapland universities. The topic of the seminar was the history of Paanajarvi, the current situation and the new prospects of the territory in such spheres as tourism, culture and research.