AFTERNOON TEA IN ONE) OF THE ARCTIC OUTPOSTS OF CIVILIZATION 



These are men of Pechenga, a settlement situated on the Pechenga Inlet, 18 miles from 

 the Arctic seacoast and 65 miles northwest of Murmansk, the terminus of the Murman Rail- 

 road. A new wagon road, built since the outbreak of the world war, connects Pechenga with 

 Kyro, 100 miles to the southwest. From Kyro a fair road, over which an automobile has 

 passed, leads to Rovaniemi. the northern terminus of the Finnish Railway which runs to 

 Kemi, 65 miles distant, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia (see map, page 332). 



Photographs by Nathalie Loubovitsky 

 WE WOULD CALL THIS CAMPING OUT IN AMERICA, BUT IT IS THE STERN REALITY 

 OF LIFE RATHER THAN RECREATION ON THE KOLA PENINSULA 



When the old regime sent settlers to the Murman Coast, each family was promised 2,000 

 rubles as a household nest-egg, but even with this bonus the frugal peasants failed to find life 

 attractive. 



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