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The View From Up On High. Legends of the Russian North
The Russian North is a term used to describe the lands in the north of the European part of Russia. It’s a historical and cultural, rather than geographical, designation, however. A cold climate, a territory that’s far from the state centers, a land that avoided the Tartar-Mongol Yoke and serfdom – all of this created a unique community of people, bold and freedom-loving. The nature here is so beautiful that the native inhabitants of these lands believed that everything surrounding them was animated with spirits. The mountains became shrines. The pines were idols. The forests, rivers and waterfalls were homes to mythological creatures. The poetry of this northern region to this day lives on in the ancient Karelian and Finnish runes and in Russian
Fly-fishing for loach in Kamchatka
The Kamchatka Peninsula in the north-eastern part of Eurasia is home to 14,000 streams and rivers. Their most numerous inhabitants are charr, with at least eight different species inhabiting Kamchatkan waters. These fish can be distinguished based on their varying colour, size and shape. They serve as a true and worthy opponent to even the most experienced fisherman, and it is a real treat when one of them catches a bite. Kamchatka is 460,000 square kilometres of difficult-to-live-on terrain. Nevertheless, getting the chance to cast a line in this far-off, volcano-covered land is a life-long dream for many a fisherman.
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Fly-fishing for loach in Kamchatka
Fishing in the Estuaries of Primorsko-Akhtarsk
The city Primorsko-Akhtarsk boasts a unique location in the southern part of Russia on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and is surrounded by estuaries. These estuaries form when rivers overflow and can either run into the sea or remain separate. Because of this, Primorsko-Akhtarsk is home to many types of both sea and river fish. Thanks to its diverse waters, the city has long been famous for its great fishing. Russian Travel Guide host Denis Golovko found this out for himself. On his journey he skillfully caught a pike, improvised by using a fake dragonfly as bait and smoked Azov-Black Sea herring on the bank of one of the estuary banks of Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
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