Valaam
Ladoga Lake, Republic of Karelia 
Valaam archipelago, consisting of 50 small islands, is located in the northern part of Ladoga Lake. There is a unique landscape and architectural complex, the park area is 24.7 thousand hectares, of which only 3600 hectares fall to the islands.
Kizhi
Republic of Karelia, Kizhi 
Kizhi is a group of small islands in the skerries of the southern part of the Zaonezhsky Peninsula. One of them is the Kizhi Pogost, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and became the basis of the famous Kizhi architectural museum
Petroglyphs of Karelia
In Karelia petroglyphs can be look at the eastern shore of Lake Onega (about 800 drawings) and at the mouth of the Vyg River, 6-8 km from Belomorsk. Known as "Besovy Sledki" and "Zavluga" (about 1000 drawings).
Solovetsky Monastery
Arkhangelsk Region, Bolshoi Solovetsky Island 
Solovetsky Monastery for its centuries-old history managed to visit both prison and special purpose camp. It is best to come to Solovki from June to the end of September, when navigation is open and there is an opportunity to get to the monastery by boat by boat.
Kivach
Karelia Republic, Kivach 
Kivach Nature Reserve - one of the oldest in Russia, was established in 1931. It is formed around the eponymous waterfall, which is its main attraction. Visiting the reserve and the waterfall is included in almost all excursions around Karelia
Marcial Waters
Republic of Karelia 
An ineffable feeling of lightness, freshness, bliss after taking a mud bath in combination with pearl - real spa treatments with health benefits! Add to this the dense clean air, the ringing silence of the winter forest or the singing of birds in the summer pine forest and feel yourself on holiday in Karelia!
Ruskeala marble canyon
Ruskeala, Republic of Karelia 
Ruskeal marble canyon - part of the Ruskeala mountain park is a real masterpiece of a symbiosis of man and nature. At the end of the 18th century, by the order of Catherine, marble mining was opened here to decorate St. Petersburg.
Sandal
Kandopozhsky District, Republic of Karelia 
Sandal Lake is located in Kondopoga district of the Republic of Karelia and refers to the basin of Lake Onega. Now Sandal is an energy reservoir, which serves as a source of water for the Kondopoga HPP.
Magnificent nature in all its pristine beauty - that's the glory of the northern edge of our Motherland, the picturesque Republic of Karelia. Onega Lake and the Solovetsky Archipelago - these are the only names that awaken in memory the "open" photos of gentle sunrises in a hazy haze, a motionless water surface, the harsh but surprisingly beautiful nature of the Russian North. However, fans of architectural monuments will not be disappointed either: they will see a wonderful masterpiece of wooden architecture in Kizhi
The most famous natural attractions of Karelia are, of course, lakes, of which there are more than sixty thousand in the republic! Largest - Ladoga and Onega, whose beauty is unable to convey even the most professional photography. On the shores of the lakes there are numerous tourist bases for every taste and purse - so the traveler with any budget can choose the option for accommodation.
The tourists visiting Karelia are the first to go on excursions to Kizham, Valaam and Solovki . The strict beauty of the Kizhi pogost with its outstanding architectural monuments - peasant houses, the Intercession Church, the eight-winged wooden mill - is "documented" at the world level: the museum complex is on the UNESCO World Heritage List . Valaam-et o not only the picturesque archipelago, but also the magnificent ensemble of the Preobrazhensky monastery with the stone chapel and the five-domed Spaso-Preobrazhensky cathedral, as well as six unique monasteries .Zhemchuzhina Solovki is a monastery of the same name of the 15th century with a long and sometimes sad history. .
Well, of course, the story of the sights of the Republic of Karelia will be incomplete without mentioning the cozy old Russian cities of the north - Petrozavodsk, Kem and Kostomuksha, Pudozh, Olonets and many other populated the edge points are just a miracle how good!