The Kola Peninsula is frequently called "Russian Lapland". It is an amazing, mysterious land at the north of the European part of Russia. It is probably the ideal part of the world with the virgin nature for those people who is searching for the new impressions or simply wish to have a rest from the vanity and other people.

 

Lovozersky district is the most spacios part of in Murmansk oblast – the total area the district is about 53 thousand square kilometers and that is about one third part of the Kola Peninsula. There is enough space to easily locate such European states as like Belgium or Holland.

 

The area was named after large and beautiful lake called Lovozero and the nearby Lappish settlement named Lujavr-sijt that means Lovozero-village in Russian. The first traces of human activity found in this place were concerned by historians to VI-V millennium BC - to the Middle Stone Age! However its present name this area has received much later - in the middle of the 16 century by the names of two objects: a big beautiful lake Lovozero and Sami (Lapps) settlement Lujavr-sijt (which means "a country churchyard Lovozero") located here.

 

The village Lovozero was founded in 1574. It stands on the both sides of the small river Virma flowing into the Lake Popovsky. Two lakes - Popovsky and Lovozero - are connected with a channel. Nowadays the village is an administrative centre of Lovozersky area. The population of the village is a little more than 3 thousand people. The village Lovozero is also the basic residence of Lapps (Sami) in Russia. Various Lappish holidays and festivals, including the international ones are held in the village which is often called the capital of Russian Lapland.

 

“Lovozjorierie” is entirely located within the Polar circle, between the Barents and the White seas. In the north of this area there is tundra with its low hills, bogs and bushes; in the middle part of Lovozyerie – forest-tundra; and in the south there is so-called “northern taiga”. The Ponoy river with the length of 426 km is running here. Numerous shallow streams inflowing into Ponoy river are full of rapids. Large forests and hills with reindeer moss alternated with swampy lowlands, heaps of stones and poor vegetation.

 

The Lake Lovozero is the third largest lake of the Kola Peninsula. The surface of the lake is more than 200 square kilometers. The lake is rich with fish and the name of it is closely connected with this fact. The word “uLov” means “a good catch” in Russian. There are more than one hundred islands on this huge lake which is stretched from the north to the south. The east shore of the lake is gently sloping and covered with the mixed wood. And its west shore outskirts with the abrupt spurs of Lovozersky Tundra mountains forming the fabulously beautiful landscapes. A great number of tundra rivers and streams bear their waters in the lake but only one river Voronya outflows from it.

 

We invite you to take the advantage of our service at our tourist camping base "Bear Land" located right in the center of the Kola Peninsula on the shore of the exciting Lake Lovozero, far away from people and civilization. You can find here the magnificent wild nature and comforts with the traditional comfort and hospitality of northern settlements. You will enjoy it.