Notes from Petrozavodsk
The Hindu
Mosquitoes and heat. Not what you’d expect when you picture Russia, but the country has been struck by a record heatwave.I’m in Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, in the north of Ru
Mosquitoes and heat. Not what you’d expect when you picture Russia, but the country has been struck by a record heatwave.
I’m in Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, in the north of Russia. The ‘republic’ denotes what in our parlance would be a State, slightly smaller than Karnataka. It stretches along the border with Finland, hanging onto the Arctic Circle. The city itself is sweltering, with the locals unused to such extremities. As a man tells me “For us, it is better for it to be -30 than +30”.
The heat doesn’t bother me but the ceaseless light does. Like all Indians, I’m so used to the order imposed by the sun that I’m quite discombobulated by the Arctic summer. At eight in the evening, it feels like late afternoon, with the sun blazing. The sun begins to set around half past 10 but is up and about by 3 a.m. The border between night and day, so irrevocable in India are blurred here.
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