* We invite you to the residence of Karelian Santa Claus — to visit Talvi Ukko and his faithful friends: huskies and reindeer! Our program includes 2 excursions to real reindeer and a kennel for sled dogs, as well as a tea party with Karelian pastries and tea made with local herbs. There are never many Santa Claus. That's what Nikolai Stolyarov, the founder of the Karelian winter grandfather's residence, thought a few years ago and decided to create his homeland of Santa Claus. Talvi Ukko is the name of the "winter grandfather" (this is how his name translates from Karelian), who settled 30 kilometers from Petrozavodsk, on the outskirts of the village of Chalna. It turned out to be a real Sami-Karelian residence. And what kind of winter wizard is there without assistants? The main ones, of course, are reindeer. That's how my grandfather got a deer farm. By the way, the Karelian old man's reindeer are no worse than those of the Lapland Santa. Well, what kind of residence is this without real northern dogs – huskies and malamutes? There will be dogs too. Talvi Ukko-Stolyarov got so carried away that he turned out to have the largest kennel of sled dogs in Russia, since Nikolai himself, like his son, professionally participate in sled racing. In general, they know the business. Well, if Talvi Ukko has so many deer and dogs, then why should they stand idly by? So it turned out that people now come to visit their winter grandfather not only to take a walk around the residence, to look at the wizard's life, not only to taste tea on herbs with gates, but also to ride dogs and reindeer sleds. Moreover, they ride here both in winter and in summer. The patrimony is open all year round.