Paanajärvi National Park


Paanajärvi National Park is a Russian national park in the Loukhsky District of northwestern Republic of Karelia, in northwestern Russia.
The park was established in 1992. It has received a PAN Parks certificate.

Geography

Paanajärvi National Park is located in the Karelia Region of northern Europe, along the Finnish–Russian border.
It protects of pristine Scandinavian and Russian Taiga ecoregion forest habitats, lakes, and rivers.

Oulanka National Park

is adjacent on the west along the border, within Finland, with contiguous protection of this Karelian Taiga habitat.