Yalkala

The Yalkala Museum-Reserve in Ilyichevo near Zelenogorsk was opened on October 20, 1940, as the V. I. Lenin House-Museum, which was visited by N. S. Khrushchev and V. S. Tolstikov. After being repurposed in 1993, the exhibition was supplemented with stories about the Soviet-Finnish War, the region's archaeology, and the ethnography of the indigenous population of the Karelian Isthmus. Within the "Roads of Kalevala" program, the story of the region's nature is accompanied by runes from the Finnish epic, and flax is grown on the museum grounds, where guests in the "How a Shirt Grew in the Field" program can spin thread themselves. Among the educational programs available is an ecological trail to Lake Dolgoye; as of February 2025, the museum operates from 10:00 to 18:00.