Sortavala (train tour 1993, 1/5)

Tilausjuna vei suomalaisia turisteja Joensuusta Laatokan ympäri heinäkuussa 1993. Video alkumatkasta Sortavalaan (1/5). Kuvaaja: Pauli Kärkkäinen. Charter train from Finland to Russia around lake Ladoga in July 1993. Route: Joensuu -Värtsilä - Sortavala - Priozersk (Käkisalmi) - St Petersburg - Lodeinoe Pole - Svir - Pitkäranta - Jänisjärvi - Värtsilä - Joensuu. Shaky video by a passanger is slightly edited (part 1/5). Rather a small number of charter trains were taken from Finland to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet empire. The villages and sceneries of this route had been blocked by the iron curtain for decades. Still, some passangers were born there, and most had some roots there.