Conjunction of work and vacation included eastern and western radial trips from Murmansk, five-day scientific symposium in between, and investigation of ghost villages on the way back to Moscow. It took 5400 km in total, of them ~350 km of "dashed pathes" and offroad. Click here for POIs, maps etc.
Route: Moscow - M11 highway - Lodeynoe Pole * - E105 "Kola" highway - Pushnoy * - Kandalaksha - Murmansk - riv. Western Litsa * (route 1 start) - Sredniy pen., eastern road - Sredniy pen., western coast - Mustatunturi ridge * - Ura-Guba - riv. Malay Litsa (route 1 end) - Murmansk ***** (Fundamental Glycobiology VI + nightly radial 70 km for aurora watching) - Teriberka (route 2 start) - wtf. Batareyskiy - Zavalishina bay - fork 47K050 (to Teriberka) - Tumanny - riv. Voronya - Dalnie Zelentsy * (route 2 end) - Murmansk - Kirovsk - Koashva (radial 3) - Kandalaksha * - Chupa - Chkalovskiy - riv. Keret (radial 4) - Segezha * - Medvezhyegorsk - Vytegra - forl A215 (to Solza) - Berezovo * - Sovza (lk. Vozhe) (radial 5) - Vologda - M8 highway - Moscow ( * = night)
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